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Commit cdef685b authored by Roberto Sassu's avatar Roberto Sassu Committed by Mimi Zohar
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evm: Allow xattr/attr operations for portable signatures



If files with portable signatures are copied from one location to another
or are extracted from an archive, verification can temporarily fail until
all xattrs/attrs are set in the destination. Only portable signatures may
be moved or copied from one file to another, as they don't depend on
system-specific information such as the inode generation. Instead portable
signatures must include security.ima.

Unlike other security.evm types, EVM portable signatures are also
immutable. Thus, it wouldn't be a problem to allow xattr/attr operations
when verification fails, as portable signatures will never be replaced with
the HMAC on possibly corrupted xattrs/attrs.

This patch first introduces a new integrity status called
INTEGRITY_FAIL_IMMUTABLE, that allows callers of
evm_verify_current_integrity() to detect that a portable signature didn't
pass verification and then adds an exception in evm_protect_xattr() and
evm_inode_setattr() for this status and returns 0 instead of -EPERM.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRoberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
parent 4a804b8a
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