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authorRoberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>2021-05-14 18:27:45 +0300
committerMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>2021-05-21 19:47:12 +0300
commite3ccfe1ad7d895487977ef64eda3441d16c9851a (patch)
treeac8af8a6855ea01c478a01d9e504a1ea44d9a5d9 /include/linux/evm.h
parent9acc89d31f0c94c8e573ed61f3e4340bbd526d0c (diff)
downloadlinux-e3ccfe1ad7d895487977ef64eda3441d16c9851a.tar.xz
evm: Introduce evm_revalidate_status()
When EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES is set, EVM allows any operation on metadata. Its main purpose is to allow users to freely set metadata when it is protected by a portable signature, until an HMAC key is loaded. However, callers of evm_verifyxattr() are not notified about metadata changes and continue to rely on the last status returned by the function. For example IMA, since it caches the appraisal result, will not call again evm_verifyxattr() until the appraisal flags are cleared, and will grant access to the file even if there was a metadata operation that made the portable signature invalid. This patch introduces evm_revalidate_status(), which callers of evm_verifyxattr() can use in their xattr hooks to determine whether re-validation is necessary and to do the proper actions. IMA calls it in its xattr hooks to reset the appraisal flags, so that the EVM status is re-evaluated after a metadata operation. Lastly, this patch also adds a call to evm_reset_status() in evm_inode_post_setattr() to invalidate the cached EVM status after a setattr operation. Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/evm.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/evm.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/evm.h b/include/linux/evm.h
index 8302bc29bb35..39bb17a8236b 100644
--- a/include/linux/evm.h
+++ b/include/linux/evm.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ extern void evm_inode_post_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry,
extern int evm_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode,
const struct xattr *xattr_array,
struct xattr *evm);
+extern bool evm_revalidate_status(const char *xattr_name);
#ifdef CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL
extern int posix_xattr_acl(const char *xattrname);
#else
@@ -104,5 +105,10 @@ static inline int evm_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode,
return 0;
}
+static inline bool evm_revalidate_status(const char *xattr_name)
+{
+ return false;
+}
+
#endif /* CONFIG_EVM */
#endif /* LINUX_EVM_H */