Re: [PATCH v10 0/4] evm: Do HMAC of multiple per LSM xattrs for new inodes

[Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 2023-03-31 at 14:32 +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote:

> Changelog
> 
> v9:
> - Ensure in reiserfs_security_write() that the full xattr name is not
>   larger than XATTR_NAME_MAX
> - Rename num_filled_xattrs to xattr_count everywhere (suggested by Paul)
> - Rename lsm_find_xattr_slot() to lsm_get_xattr_slot() and add a proper
>   documentation (suggested by Paul)
> - Return zero instead of -EOPNOTSUPP in evm_inode_init_security()
>   (suggested by Paul)
> - Remove additional checks of new_xattrs array in
>   security_inode_init_security() (suggested by Paul)
> - Handle the !initxattrs case similarly to the initxattrs case, except for
>   not allocating the new_xattrs array in the former (suggested by Paul)
> - Remove local variable xattr in security_inode_init_security(), and use
>   xattr_count instead for loop termination (suggested by Paul)
> 
> v8:
> - Add a new reiserfs patch to write the full xattr name
> - Add num_filled_xattrs parameter to inode_init_security hook (suggested by
>   Paul) and evm_inode_init_security()
> - Change default return value of inode_init_security hook to -EOPNOTSUPP
> - Rename lbs_xattr field of lsm_blob_sizes to lbs_xattr_count
> - Introduce lsm_find_xattr_slot() helper
> - Rename lsm_xattr parameter of evm_init_hmac() to xattrs
> - Retrieve the EVM xattr slot with lsm_find_xattr_slot() and double check
>   with the xattr array terminator
> - Remove security_check_compact_filled_xattrs() (suggested by Paul)

Much better without security_check_compact_filled_xattrs().  Thank you!

> - Update security_inode_init_security() documentation
> - Ensure that inode_init_security hook incremented the number of filled
>   slots if it returned zero
> - Ensure that xattr name and value are non-NULL in the filled slots
> - Add the xattr name assignment after the xattr value one (suggested by
>   Paul)
> - Drop patches 1 - 3 (already in lsm/next)
> 

-- 
thanks,

Mimi