linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 1/3] ima: Implement ima_inode

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Message-ID: <CACYkzJ51imU+_iNR3zG2pzqvVoewSE+NCTJo_V5ZGYJOej-B-g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:04:48 +0100
From:   KP Singh <kpsingh@...omium.org>
To:     Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
Cc:     James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Security Module list 
        <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Florent Revest <revest@...omium.org>,
        Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...omium.org>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 1/3] ima: Implement ima_inode_hash

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 6:35 PM Yonghong Song <yhs@...com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 11/24/20 7:12 AM, KP Singh wrote:
> > From: KP Singh <kpsingh@...gle.com>
> >
> > This is in preparation to add a helper for BPF LSM programs to use
> > IMA hashes when attached to LSM hooks. There are LSM hooks like
> > inode_unlink which do not have a struct file * argument and cannot
> > use the existing ima_file_hash API.
> >
> > An inode based API is, therefore, useful in LSM based detections like an
> > executable trying to delete itself which rely on the inode_unlink LSM
> > hook.
> >
> > Moreover, the ima_file_hash function does nothing with the struct file
> > pointer apart from calling file_inode on it and converting it to an
> > inode.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@...gle.com>
>
> There is no change for this patch compared to previous version,
> so you can carry my Ack.
>
> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>

I am guessing:

*  We need an Ack from Mimi/James.
* As regards to which tree, I guess bpf-next would be better since the
BPF helper and the selftest depends on it