linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 00/16] EVM

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Message-ID: <BANLkTinSwVnZ=Yg2HTVSqDN2Qx9rOLJsqw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:02:28 -0700
From:	"Ware, Ryan R" <ryan.r.ware@...el.com>
To:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	"linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org" 
	<linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	David Safford <safford@...son.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.s.kasatkin@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/16] EVM

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 14:06 -0700, Ryan Ware wrote:
> > Glad to see this going in Mimi!  Looking forward to enabling this in our
> > MeeGo kernels.
> >
> > Ryan
>
> I wish.  As far as I'm aware, EVM hasn't been upstreamed.  The good news
> is that the ecryptfs encrypted-key patches are now in the
> security-testing tree.

True.  My wording should have been clearer.  It's definitely good to
have the ecryptfs patches in.

>
> > On 6/29/11 12:50 PM, "Mimi Zohar" <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Discretionary Access Control(DAC) and Mandatory Access Control(MAC) can
> > >protect the integrity of a running system from unauthorized changes. When
> > >these protections are not running, such as when booting a malicious OS,
> > >mounting the disk under a different operating system, or physically moving
> > >the disk to another system, an "offline" attack is free to read and write
> > >file data/metadata.
> > >
> > >...snip...
> >
> >
>
>
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