From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>,
"linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org"
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Silviu Vlasceanu <Silviu.Vlasceanu@huawei.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH] ima: Set and clear FMODE_CAN_READ in ima_calc_file_hash()
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:37:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wiso=-Fhe2m042CfBNUGhoVB1Pry14DF64uUgztHVOW0g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c556508437ffc10d3873fe25cbbba3484ca574df.camel@linux.ibm.com>
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 8:47 AM Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> This discussion seems to be going down the path of requiring an IMA
> filesystem hook for reading the file, again. That solution was
> rejected, not by me. What is new this time?
You can't read a non-read-opened file. Not even IMA can.
So don't do that then.
IMA is doing something wrong. Why would you ever read a file that can't be read?
Fix whatever "open" function instead of trying to work around the fact
that you opened it wrong.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-16 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20201113080132.16591-1-roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
2020-11-14 11:10 ` [RESEND][PATCH] ima: Set and clear FMODE_CAN_READ in ima_calc_file_hash() Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-16 8:52 ` Roberto Sassu
2020-11-16 16:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-16 16:46 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-11-16 17:37 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2020-11-16 17:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-16 18:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-11-16 18:35 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-11-17 18:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-11-17 18:54 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-11-17 23:23 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-11-17 23:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-11-17 23:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-11-18 18:28 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-11-20 12:52 ` Roberto Sassu
2020-11-16 18:21 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-11-16 18:08 ` Al Viro
2020-11-16 18:49 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-11-17 12:29 ` Roberto Sassu
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