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[v7,12/12] ima: Don't remove security.ima if file must not be appraised

Message ID 20210514152753.982958-13-roberto.sassu@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series evm: Improve usability of portable signatures | expand

Commit Message

Roberto Sassu May 14, 2021, 3:27 p.m. UTC 
Files might come from a remote source and might have xattrs, including
security.ima. It should not be IMA task to decide whether security.ima
should be kept or not. This patch removes the removexattr() system
call in ima_inode_post_setattr().

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
---
 security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
index d9a627de3930..940695e7b535 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
@@ -532,8 +532,6 @@  void ima_inode_post_setattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
 		return;
 
 	action = ima_must_appraise(mnt_userns, inode, MAY_ACCESS, POST_SETATTR);
-	if (!action)
-		__vfs_removexattr(&init_user_ns, dentry, XATTR_NAME_IMA);
 	iint = integrity_iint_find(inode);
 	if (iint) {
 		set_bit(IMA_CHANGE_ATTR, &iint->atomic_flags);