Re: [PATCH 6/6] ima: Support appended signatures for appraisal

[Mehmet Kayaalp <mkayaalp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

> On Apr 20, 2017, at 7:41 PM, Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> This patch introduces the appended_imasig keyword to the IMA policy syntax
> to specify that a given hook should expect the file to have the IMA
> signature appended to it. Here is how it can be used in a rule:
> 
> appraise func=KEXEC_KERNEL_CHECK appraise_type=appended_imasig
> appraise func=KEXEC_KERNEL_CHECK appraise_type=appended_imasig|imasig
> 
> In the second form, IMA will accept either an appended signature or a
> signature stored in the extended attribute. In that case, it will first
> check whether there is an appended signature, and if not it will read it
> from the extended attribute.
> 
> The format of the appended signature is the same used for signed kernel
> modules. This means that the file can be signed with the scripts/sign-file
> tool, with a command line such as this:

I would suggest naming the appraise_type as modsig (or some variant) to clarify
that the format is defined by how module signatures are handled. Maybe we'd like 
to define a different appended/inline signature format for IMA in the future.

-Mehmet