From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "ima: limit file hash setting by user to fix and log modes"
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 19:09:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180601170914.GC13517@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180531174231.GA9708@rapoport-lnx>
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 08:42:31PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On a system that has IMA appraisal enabled it is impossible to create
> security.ima extended attribute files that contain IMA hash.
>
> For instance, consider the following use case:
>
> 1) extract application files to a staging area as non root user
> 2) verify that installation is correct
> 3) create IMA extended attributes for the installed files
> 4) move the files to their destination
> 5) change the files ownership to root
>
> With the longterm kernels 4.4.x and 4.9.x step 3 will fail.
>
> The issues is fixed in upstream kernels by the commit
> f5acb3dcba1ffb7f0b8cbb9dba61500eea5d610b ("Revert "ima: limit file hash
> setting by user to fix and log modes"), with the patch also quoted below.
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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2018-05-31 17:42 [PATCH] Revert "ima: limit file hash setting by user to fix and log modes" Mike Rapoport
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