linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/30] ima: Introduce IMA namespace

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Date:   Tue, 08 Sep 2020 10:03:24 -0400
From:   Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Luke Hinds <lhinds@...hat.com>, "Dr. Greg" <greg@...ellic.com>
Cc:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        krzysztof.struczynski@...wei.com, linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/30] ima: Introduce IMA namespace

On Mon, 2020-09-07 at 12:50 +0100, Luke Hinds wrote:
> > Candidly, given the politics of security technology being viewed as
> > 'constraining' user rights, I think that a lot of forthcoming security
> > technology may end up being out of tree moving forward.
> > 
> 
> I think it's prudent to look forward and plan diligently, but I would
> not want perfect to be the enemy of good.

Agreed.  This isn't an abstract problem, but one that has already come
up and, hopefully, has been addressed appropriately.

> 
> I approach this more from a user's perspective. We are using IMA in 
> https://keylime.dev to measure a host and would like to measure
> within a container too. It's the most common request we hear from our
> users.
> 
> Perhaps we all collaborate on a proposal extending Stefans work here:
> https://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/IMA_Namespacing_design_considerati
> ons
> 
> I have seen around 3-4 patches now get submitted, so work has been
> done before, and as above, users are present too. We could then have
> some consensus on how this should look and later patches might have
> more success at landing.
> 
> Would anyone be interested in this and have recommendations on how we
> could approach this?

When Roberto Sassu and Krzysztof Struczynski contacted me about the
status of Stefan Berger's patch set, based on Yuqiong Sun's work, I was
under the impression that they would be rebasing it on the latest
kernel and going forward from there.   Obviously things changed.  I
pointed out to them resolving the "IMA namespacing" issue would be the
first thing that needs to be addressed.  So here we are.

Definitely, let's have this discussion.

Mimi