On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 03:26:51PM -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:

Hi Stefan,

On Tue, 2022-01-04 at 12:04 -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:

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From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>

Move variables related to the IMA policy into the ima_namespace. This way
the IMA policy of an IMA namespace can be set and displayed using a
front-end like SecurityFS.

Implement ima_ns_from_file() to get the IMA namespace via the user
namespace of the SecurityFS superblock that a file belongs to.

To get the current ima_namespace use get_current_ns() when a function
that is related to a policy rule is called. In other cases where functions
are called due file attribute modifications, use init_ima_ns, since these
functions are related to IMA appraisal and changes to file attributes are
only relevant to the init_ima_ns until IMA namespaces also support IMA
appraisal. In ima_file_free() use init_ima_ns since in this case flags
related to file measurements may be affected, which is not supported in
IMA namespaces, yet.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>

Please split this patch into "ima: pass through ima namespace", or some
other name,  and "ima: Move policy related variables into
ima_namespace".  The other option is to combine the "pass through ima
namespace" with the 2nd patch, like Christian's example.

I was just about to comment something similar on 02/19.

I would also not introduce get_current_ns(). It's simply more honest and
if &init_ima_ns is used everywhere until multiple namespaces can
actually exists.