linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] turn on force option for FUSE in builtin policies

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Date:   Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:32:41 -0500
From:   Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Dongsu Park <dongsu@...volk.io>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alban Crequy <alban@...volk.io>,
        Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
        Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>,
        linux-integrity <linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] turn on force option for FUSE in builtin policies

On Mon, 2018-01-15 at 06:48 -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 08:51:48PM +0100, Dongsu Park wrote:
> > In case of FUSE filesystem, cached integrity results in IMA could be
> > reused, when the userspace FUSE process has changed the
> > underlying files. To be able to avoid such cases, we need to turn on
> > the force option in builtin policies, for actions of measure and
> > appraise. Then integrity values become re-measured and re-appraised.
> > In that way, cached integrity results won't be used.
> 
> The same is true for any distributed file system.  Checking for magic
> numbers is always the wrong thing.  You'll need flags for specific
> behavior in struct file_system_type instead.

For XFS, which considers fsmagic numbers private to the filesystem,
*always* using the fsmagic number is wrong.  As to whether this is
true for other filesystems is unclear.  IMA policies have been defined
in terms of fsmagic numbers for a long time.  fsmagic numbers were
moved from the filesystems to magic.h for this purpose.  Someone would
have complained earlier if it is always wrong.

I just posted a patch titled "ima: define new policy condition based
on the filesystem name" to allow policies to be defined in terms of
the i_sb->s_type->name.

Mimi