Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v8 1/6] reiserfs: Switch to security_inode_init_security()

[Paul Moore via Ocfs2-devel <ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com>]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 4:18 AM Roberto Sassu
<roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com> wrote:
>
> From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
>
> In preparation for removing security_old_inode_init_security(), switch to
> security_inode_init_security(). Commit 572302af1258 ("reiserfs: Add missing
> calls to reiserfs_security_free()") fixed possible memory leaks and another
> issue related to adding an xattr at inode creation time.
>
> Define the initxattrs callback reiserfs_initxattrs(), to populate the
> name/value/len triple in the reiserfs_security_handle() with the first
> xattr provided by LSMs. Make a copy of the xattr value, as
> security_inode_init_security() frees it.
>
> After the call to security_inode_init_security(), remove the check for
> returning -EOPNOTSUPP, as security_inode_init_security() changes it to
> zero.
>
> Multiple xattrs are currently not supported, as the
> reiserfs_security_handle structure is exported to user space. As a
> consequence, even if EVM is invoked, it will not provide an xattr (if it
> is not the first to set it, its xattr will be discarded; if it is the
> first, it does not have xattrs to calculate the HMAC on).
>
> Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
> Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  fs/reiserfs/xattr_security.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Merged into lsm/next, thanks.

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