On 2021/03/20 5:03, Mimi Zohar wrote:

The integrity's "iint_cache" is initialized at security_init().  Only
after an IMA policy is loaded, which is initialized at late_initcall,
is a file's integrity status stored in the "iint_cache".

All integrity_inode_get() callers first verify that the IMA policy has
been loaded, before calling it.  Yet for some reason, it is still being
called, causing a NULL pointer dereference.

qemu-system-x86_64 (...snipped...) lsm=smack (...snipped...)

Hmm, why are you using lsm=smack instead of security=smack ?
Since use of lsm= overrides CONFIG_LSM="lockdown,yama,safesetid,integrity,tomoyo,smack,bpf" settings,
only smack is activated, which means that integrity_iintcache_init() will not be called by

  DEFINE_LSM(integrity) = {
  	.name = "integrity",
  	.init = integrity_iintcache_init,
  };

declaration. That's the reason iint_cache == NULL when integrity_inode_get() is called.