Re: [PATCH v8 2/6] ocfs2: Switch to security_inode_init_security()

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 4:18 AM Roberto Sassu
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Roberto Sassu <[email protected]>
>
> In preparation for removing security_old_inode_init_security(), switch to
> security_inode_init_security().
>
> Extend the existing ocfs2_initxattrs() to take the
> ocfs2_security_xattr_info structure from fs_info, and populate the
> name/value/len triple with the first xattr provided by LSMs.
>
> As fs_info was not used before, ocfs2_initxattrs() can now handle the case
> of replicating the behavior of security_old_inode_init_security(), i.e.
> just obtaining the xattr, in addition to setting all xattrs provided by
> LSMs.
>
> Supporting multiple xattrs is not currently supported where
> security_old_inode_init_security() was called (mknod, symlink), as it
> requires non-trivial changes that can be done at a later time. Like for
> reiserfs, even if EVM is invoked, it will not provide an xattr (if it is
> not the first to set it, its xattr will be discarded; if it is the first,
> it does not have xattrs to calculate the HMAC on).
>
> Finally, since security_inode_init_security(), unlike
> security_old_inode_init_security(), returns zero instead of -EOPNOTSUPP if
> no xattrs were provided by LSMs or if inodes are private, additionally
> check in ocfs2_init_security_get() if the xattr name is set.
>
> If not, act as if security_old_inode_init_security() returned -EOPNOTSUPP,
> and set si->enable to zero to notify to the functions following
> ocfs2_init_security_get() that no xattrs are available.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Joseph Qi <[email protected]>
> ---
>  fs/ocfs2/namei.c |  2 ++
>  fs/ocfs2/xattr.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Merged into lsm/next, thanks.

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