On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 07:17:57PM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
From: Roberto Sassu roberto.sassu@huawei.com
In preparation for moving IMA and EVM to the LSM infrastructure, introduce the file_release hook.
IMA calculates at file close the new digest of the file content and writes it to security.ima, so that appraisal at next file access succeeds.
An LSM could implement an exclusive access scheme for files, only allowing access to files that have no references.
The new hook cannot return an error and cannot cause the operation to be reverted.
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu roberto.sassu@huawei.com
fs/file_table.c | 1 + include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h | 1 + include/linux/security.h | 4 ++++ security/security.c | 11 +++++++++++ 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c index de4a2915bfd4..c72dc75f2bd3 100644 --- a/fs/file_table.c +++ b/fs/file_table.c @@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ static void __fput(struct file *file) eventpoll_release(file); locks_remove_file(file);
- security_file_release(file); ima_file_free(file);
This has always been an extremely dicy hook in here and that's caused us issues before for stacking filesystems so I'm not enthusiastic about exposing this to all LSMs. So reluctantly,
Acked-by: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org