linux-kernel - Re: [GIT] Security subsystem updates for 3.7

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Date:	Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:02:54 -0400
From:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ibm.com>,
	Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT] Security subsystem updates for 3.7

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 02:44 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:35 AM, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> wrote:
> >> Highlights:
> >>
> >> - Integrity: add local fs integrity verification to detect offline attacks
> >> - Integrity: add digital signature verification
> >
> > Ok, the integrity changes in particular clashed with the new user
> > namespace support by Eric Biederman.
> >
> > The clashes weren't all that big, but there have been semantic changes
> > in this area, and I'd like Eric to please check that I resolved it
> > correctly, and the integrity people to double-check my changes to the
> > "fowner" field.
> >
> > Mimi, Dmitry, Eric? Please check my current git tree, in particular
> > the security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c file, but I think Eric should
> > look at the kernel/auditsc.c merge too, in case I missed something.
> 
> Those two resolutions look good to me.   Those were the resolutions
> I came up with in dealing with linux-next, so they have a modest amount
> of testing.

Thanks, the ima_policy.c changes look good to me too.

Mimi

> Elsewhere I have found issues in yama_lsm and drivers/staging/dgrp,
> patches after I have slept.
> 
> Eric
> 



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