Re: [PATCH 2/6] ima: Return INTEGRITY_FAIL if digital signaturecan't be verified

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Tue Mar 05 2013 - 08:54:21 EST


On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 08:30 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:

> Digital signature verification happens using integrity_digsig_verify().
> If a digital signature is present in security.ima, then any error, which
> happens during signature verification, should lead to status
> INTEGRITY_FAIL. In the future we might want to differentiate between
> persistent (eg. -ENOMEM) vs. non-persistent errors, in order to cache
> failures. This patch removes the unnecessary -EOPNOTSUPP test.

correction, "persistent vs. non-persistent(eg. -ENOMEM)"

Mimi

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