[PATCH 4/6] ima: Introduce new integrity error code INTEGRITY_XATTR_NOTSUPP

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Thu Feb 14 2013 - 14:55:53 EST


Currently file system does not support xattr or security xattr are not
enabled, we return INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN. INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN is returned in
so many other conditions too, evm not initialized etc.

So far nobody cared but with appraise_type=optional, I need to
to differentiate between different error paths. For example, I want
to allow access to file when xattr are not enabled or specific security
attr is not enabled by file system. But I don't want to allow access
for all cases of INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN. For example,
if vfs_getxattr_alloc() returns -ENOMEM, then also INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN
will be returned and I don't think we want to allow access to file
in that case.

So to differentiate the errors where we can allow acccess to file,
introduce the new error code.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/integrity.h | 1 +
security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/integrity.h b/include/linux/integrity.h
index 9be4a98..37074be 100644
--- a/include/linux/integrity.h
+++ b/include/linux/integrity.h
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ enum integrity_status {
INTEGRITY_EVM_NOLABEL,
INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS,
INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN,
+ INTEGRITY_XATTR_NOTSUPP,
};

/* List of EVM protected security xattrs */
diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
index 1750556..af39a08 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
@@ -129,14 +129,14 @@ int ima_appraise_measurement(int func, struct integrity_iint_cache *iint,
if (!ima_appraise)
return 0;
if (!inode->i_op->getxattr)
- return INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN;
+ return INTEGRITY_XATTR_NOTSUPP;

rc = vfs_getxattr_alloc(dentry, XATTR_NAME_IMA, (char **)&xattr_value,
0, GFP_NOFS);
if (rc <= 0) {
/* File system does not support security xattr */
if (rc == -EOPNOTSUPP)
- return INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN;
+ return INTEGRITY_XATTR_NOTSUPP;

if (rc && rc != -ENODATA)
goto out;
--
1.7.7.6

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