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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, silviu.vlasceanu@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/15] ima: add parser of digest lists metadata
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 22:20:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171118042030.GA13456@mail.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171107103710.10883-7-roberto.sassu@huawei.com>

On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 11:37:01AM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> from a predefined position (/etc/ima/digest_lists/metadata), when rootfs
> becomes available. Digest lists must be loaded before IMA appraisal is in
> enforcing mode.

I'm sure there's a good reason for it, but this seems weird to me.
Why read it from a file on disk instead of accepting it through say
a securityfile write?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-18  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-07 10:36 [PATCH v2 00/15] ima: digest list feature Roberto Sassu
2017-11-07 10:36 ` [PATCH v2 01/15] ima: generalize ima_read_policy() Roberto Sassu
2017-11-07 10:36 ` [PATCH v2 02/15] ima: generalize ima_write_policy() Roberto Sassu
2017-11-07 10:36 ` [PATCH v2 03/15] ima: generalize policy file operations Roberto Sassu
2017-11-07 10:36 ` [PATCH v2 04/15] ima: use ima_show_htable_value to show hash table data Roberto Sassu
2017-11-07 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 05/15] ima: add functions to manage digest lists Roberto Sassu
2017-11-07 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 06/15] ima: add parser of digest lists metadata Roberto Sassu
2017-11-18  4:20   ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2017-11-18 23:23     ` Mimi Zohar
2017-11-20  9:40       ` Roberto Sassu
2017-11-20 13:53         ` Mimi Zohar
2017-11-20 16:52           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2017-11-07 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 07/15] ima: add parser of compact digest list Roberto Sassu
2017-11-07 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 08/15] ima: add parser of RPM package headers Roberto Sassu
2017-11-07 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 09/15] ima: introduce securityfs interfaces for digest lists Roberto Sassu
2017-11-07 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 10/15] ima: disable digest lookup if digest lists are not checked Roberto Sassu
2017-11-07 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 11/15] ima: add policy action digest_list Roberto Sassu
2017-11-07 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 12/15] ima: do not update security.ima if appraisal status is not INTEGRITY_PASS Roberto Sassu
2017-11-18  4:25   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2017-11-07 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 13/15] evm: add kernel command line option to select protected xattrs Roberto Sassu
2017-11-07 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 14/15] ima: add support for appraisal with digest lists Roberto Sassu
2017-11-07 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 15/15] ima: add Documentation/security/IMA-digest-lists.txt Roberto Sassu
2017-11-07 13:37 ` [PATCH v2 00/15] ima: digest list feature Mimi Zohar
2017-11-07 16:45   ` Roberto Sassu
2017-11-17  1:08     ` Kees Cook
2017-11-17  8:55       ` Roberto Sassu
2017-11-17 12:21         ` Mimi Zohar
2017-11-07 14:49 ` Matthew Garrett
2017-11-07 17:53   ` Roberto Sassu
2017-11-07 18:06     ` Matthew Garrett
2017-11-08 12:00       ` Roberto Sassu
2017-11-08 15:48         ` Matthew Garrett
2017-11-09  9:51           ` Roberto Sassu
2017-11-09 14:47             ` Matthew Garrett
2017-11-09 16:13               ` Roberto Sassu
2017-11-09 16:46                 ` Matthew Garrett
2017-11-09 17:23                   ` Roberto Sassu
2017-11-09 16:17               ` Mimi Zohar
2017-11-07 18:03 ` Safford, David (GE Global Research, US)
2017-11-08 10:16   ` Roberto Sassu

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