linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v19 15/20] fsverity: expose verified fsverity built-in signatures to LSMs

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Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 09:07:23 +0300
From: "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@...nel.org>
To: "Eric Biggers" <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc: "Paul Moore" <paul@...l-moore.com>, "Fan Wu"
 <wufan@...ux.microsoft.com>, <corbet@....net>, <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>,
 <jmorris@...ei.org>, <serge@...lyn.com>, <tytso@....edu>,
 <axboe@...nel.dk>, <agk@...hat.com>, <snitzer@...nel.org>,
 <mpatocka@...hat.com>, <eparis@...hat.com>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
 <linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
 <fsverity@...ts.linux.dev>, <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
 <dm-devel@...ts.linux.dev>, <audit@...r.kernel.org>,
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Deven Bowers"
 <deven.desai@...ux.microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v19 15/20] fsverity: expose verified fsverity built-in
 signatures to LSMs

On Thu May 30, 2024 at 9:01 AM EEST, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 08:51:21AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Thu May 30, 2024 at 4:44 AM EEST, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > > +	err = security_inode_setintegrity(inode,
> > > > +					  LSM_INT_FSVERITY_BUILTINSIG_VALID,
> > > > +					  signature,
> > > > +					  le32_to_cpu(sig_size));
> > >
> > > I like this much better without the explicit inode cast :)
> > 
> > Would be nice btw if that was 'ret' or 'rc' because err is such
> > a common name for exception handler alike goto-labels... Looks
> > confusing just because of that :-)
> > 
>
> A lot of kernel code, including the rest of fs/verity/, uses the convention that
> "0 or negative errno" return values are named 'err' (and return values that
> aren't necessarily an errno are named something else).  So it's fine as-is.

Right, just hadn't seen such naming convention before.

BR, Jarkko