Re: [PATCH 2/9] security: Move trivial IMA hooks into LSM

Mimi Zohar
2022-10-19T14:49:44Z

On Thu, 2022-10-13 at 15:36 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> This moves the trivial hard-coded stacking of IMA LSM hooks into the
> existing LSM infrastructure.

The only thing trivial about making IMA and EVM LSMs is moving them to
LSM hooks. Although static files may be signed and the signatures
distributed with the file data through the normal distribution
mechanisms (e.g. RPM), other files cannot be signed remotely (e.g.
configuration files). For these files, both IMA and EVM may be
configured to maintain persistent file state stored as security xattrs
in the form of security.ima file hashes or security.evm HMACs. The LSM
flexibility of enabling/disabling IMA or EVM on a per boot basis breaks
this usage, potentially preventing subsequent boots.
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thanks,

Mimi