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authorRoberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>2024-02-15 11:30:58 +0100
committerPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>2024-02-15 23:43:42 -0500
commit77fa6f314f0376176ef6bf3d84403e0d8b54ce28 (patch)
tree60fa6a1ee957c2387f77fbc8aaffcb92a7299c9b /fs/attr.c
parent314a8dc728d038378795236f6b5199265f921f45 (diff)
security: Introduce inode_post_setattr hook
In preparation for moving IMA and EVM to the LSM infrastructure, introduce the inode_post_setattr hook. At inode_setattr hook, EVM verifies the file's existing HMAC value. At inode_post_setattr, EVM re-calculates the file's HMAC based on the modified file attributes and other file metadata. Other LSMs could similarly take some action after successful file attribute change. The new hook cannot return an error and cannot cause the operation to be reverted. Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/attr.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/attr.c b/fs/attr.c
index adeba0ec40f1..990e1b3a3c91 100644
--- a/fs/attr.c
+++ b/fs/attr.c
@@ -502,6 +502,7 @@ int notify_change(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry,
if (!error) {
fsnotify_change(dentry, ia_valid);
+ security_inode_post_setattr(idmap, dentry, ia_valid);
ima_inode_post_setattr(idmap, dentry, ia_valid);
evm_inode_post_setattr(idmap, dentry, ia_valid);
}