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Commit 3dcbad52 authored by Dmitry Kasatkin's avatar Dmitry Kasatkin Committed by Mimi Zohar
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evm: properly handle INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS EVM status



Unless an LSM labels a file during d_instantiate(), newly created
files are not labeled with an initial security.evm xattr, until
the file closes.  EVM, before allowing a protected, security xattr
to be written, verifies the existing 'security.evm' value is good.
For newly created files without a security.evm label, this
verification prevents writing any protected, security xattrs,
until the file closes.

Following is the example when this happens:
fd = open("foo", O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0644);
setxattr("foo", "security.SMACK64", value, sizeof(value), 0);
close(fd);

While INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS status is handled in other places, such
as evm_inode_setattr(), it does not handle it in all cases in
evm_protect_xattr().  By limiting the use of INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS to
newly created files, we can now allow setting "protected" xattrs.

Changelog:
- limit the use of INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS to IMA identified new files

Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>  3.14+
parent b151d6b0
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