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.

-- Sincerely yours, Mike.

From f5acb3dcba1ffb7f0b8cbb9dba61500eea5d610b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Mimi Zohar zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 09:14:16 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "ima: limit file hash setting by user to fix and log modes"

Userspace applications have been modified to write security xattrs, but they are not context aware. In the case of security.ima, the security xattr can be either a file hash or a file signature. Permitting writing one, but not the other requires the application to be context aware.

In addition, userspace applications might write files to a staging area, which might not be in policy, and then change some file metadata (eg. owner) making it in policy. As a result, these files are not labeled properly.

This reverts commit c68ed80c97d9720f51ef31fe91560fdd1e121533, which prevents writing file hashes as security.ima xattrs.

Requested-by: Patrick Ohly patrick.ohly@intel.com Cc: Dmitry Kasatkin dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com --- security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c index 389325ac6067..a705598ced5f 100644 --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c @@ -384,14 +384,10 @@ int ima_inode_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *xattr_name, result = ima_protect_xattr(dentry, xattr_name, xattr_value, xattr_value_len); if (result == 1) { - bool digsig; - if (!xattr_value_len || (xvalue->type >= IMA_XATTR_LAST)) return -EINVAL; - digsig = (xvalue->type == EVM_IMA_XATTR_DIGSIG); - if (!digsig && (ima_appraise & IMA_APPRAISE_ENFORCE)) - return -EPERM; - ima_reset_appraise_flags(d_backing_inode(dentry), digsig); + ima_reset_appraise_flags(d_backing_inode(dentry), + (xvalue->type == EVM_IMA_XATTR_DIGSIG) ? 1 : 0); result = 0; } return result;