# Re: \[PATCH v6 7/7\] ima: add policy support for the new file open MAY\_OPENEXEC flag

- From: Mickaël Salaün \<mic@digikod.net\>
- Date: 2020-07-16 15:22:38 
- List: linux-security-module
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-security-module/2020/07/184468
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2020/07/184228/t.md

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On 16/07/2020 16:59, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 7/16/20 7:40 AM, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
>>
>> On 15/07/2020 22:40, Kees Cook wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 08:16:38PM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
>>>> From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
>>>>
>>>> The kernel has no way of differentiating between a file containing data
>>>> or code being opened by an interpreter.  The proposed O_MAYEXEC
>>>> openat2(2) flag bridges this gap by defining and enabling the
>>>> MAY_OPENEXEC flag.
>>>>
>>>> This patch adds IMA policy support for the new MAY_OPENEXEC flag.
>>>>
>>>> Example:
>>>> measure func=FILE_CHECK mask=^MAY_OPENEXEC
>>>> appraise func=FILE_CHECK appraise_type=imasig mask=^MAY_OPENEXEC
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <redacted>
>>>> Acked-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
>>>
>>> (Process nit: if you're sending this on behalf of another author, then
>>> this should be Signed-off-by rather than Acked-by.)
>>
>> I'm not a co-author of this patch.
>>
> 
> from Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:
> 
> The Signed-off-by: tag indicates that the signer was involved in the
> development of the patch, or that he/she was in the patch's delivery path.
>                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 

OK, I though such tag had to go along with the From/Author, the
Committer or a Co-developed-by tag, but there is also this specific
case. I'll fix that in the next series.
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