Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 2 authors, 2020-09-11

Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] IMA: change process_buffer_measurement return type from void to int

From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Date: 2020-08-31 11:36:50
Also in: dm-devel, linux-security-module, lkml, selinux

On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 18:57 -0700, Tushar Sugandhi wrote:
process_buffer_measurement() does not return the result of the operation.
Therefore, the consumers of this function cannot act on it, if needed.

Update return type of process_buffer_measurement() from void to int.
Failure to measure may be audited, but should never fail.  This is one
of the main differences between secure and trusted boot concepts. 
Notice in process_measurement() that -EACCES is only returned for
appraisal.

Returning a failure from process_buffer_measurement() in itself isn't a
problem, as long as the failure isn't returned to the LSM/IMA hook. 
However,  just as the callers of  process_measurement() originally
processed the result, that processing was moved into
process_measurement() [1].

Mimi

[1] 750943a30714 ima: remove enforce checking duplication
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Tushar Sugandhi <redacted>
---
 security/integrity/ima/ima.h      |  6 +++---
 security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c | 14 +++++++-------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima.h b/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
index 8875085db689..83ed57147e68 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
@@ -265,9 +265,9 @@ void ima_store_measurement(struct integrity_iint_cache *iint, struct file *file,
 			   struct evm_ima_xattr_data *xattr_value,
 			   int xattr_len, const struct modsig *modsig, int pcr,
 			   struct ima_template_desc *template_desc);
-void process_buffer_measurement(struct inode *inode, const void *buf, int size,
-				const char *eventname, enum ima_hooks func,
-				int pcr, const char *func_data);
+int process_buffer_measurement(struct inode *inode, const void *buf, int size,
+			       const char *eventname, enum ima_hooks func,
+			       int pcr, const char *func_data);
 void ima_audit_measurement(struct integrity_iint_cache *iint,
 			   const unsigned char *filename);
 int ima_alloc_init_template(struct ima_event_data *event_data,
diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
index c870fd6d2f83..0979a62a9257 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
@@ -736,9 +736,9 @@ int ima_load_data(enum kernel_load_data_id id)
  *
  * Based on policy, the buffer is measured into the ima log.
  */
-void process_buffer_measurement(struct inode *inode, const void *buf, int size,
-				const char *eventname, enum ima_hooks func,
-				int pcr, const char *func_data)
+int process_buffer_measurement(struct inode *inode, const void *buf, int size,
+			       const char *eventname, enum ima_hooks func,
+			       int pcr, const char *func_data)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
 	const char *audit_cause = "ENOMEM";
@@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ void process_buffer_measurement(struct inode *inode, const void *buf, int size,
 	u32 secid;
 
 	if (!ima_policy_flag)
-		return;
+		return 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * Both LSM hooks and auxilary based buffer measurements are
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ void process_buffer_measurement(struct inode *inode, const void *buf, int size,
 		action = ima_get_action(inode, current_cred(), secid, 0, func,
 					&pcr, &template, func_data);
 		if (!(action & IMA_MEASURE))
-			return;
+			return 0;
 	}
 
 	if (!pcr)
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ void process_buffer_measurement(struct inode *inode, const void *buf, int size,
 			pr_err("template %s init failed, result: %d\n",
 			       (strlen(template->name) ?
 				template->name : template->fmt), ret);
-			return;
+			return ret;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ void process_buffer_measurement(struct inode *inode, const void *buf, int size,
 					func_measure_str(func),
 					audit_cause, ret, 0, ret);
 
-	return;
+	return ret;
 }
 
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