Hi Roberto,

On Wed, 2022-11-23 at 16:47 +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:

 int security_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir,
                                 const struct qstr *qstr,
                                 const initxattrs initxattrs, void *fs_data)
 {
-       struct xattr new_xattrs[MAX_LSM_EVM_XATTR + 1];
-       struct xattr *lsm_xattr, *evm_xattr, *xattr;
-       int ret;
+       struct security_hook_list *P;
+       struct xattr *new_xattrs;
+       struct xattr *xattr;
+       int ret = -EOPNOTSUPP, num_filled_xattrs = 0;
 
        if (unlikely(IS_PRIVATE(inode)))
                return 0;
 
+       if (!blob_sizes.lbs_xattr)
+               return 0;
+
        if (!initxattrs)
                return call_int_hook(inode_init_security, -EOPNOTSUPP, inode,
-                                    dir, qstr, NULL, NULL, NULL);
-       memset(new_xattrs, 0, sizeof(new_xattrs));
-       lsm_xattr = new_xattrs;
-       ret = call_int_hook(inode_init_security, -EOPNOTSUPP, inode, dir, qstr,
-                                               &lsm_xattr->name,
-                                               &lsm_xattr->value,
-                                               &lsm_xattr->value_len);
-       if (ret)
+                                   dir, qstr, NULL);
+       /* Allocate +1 for EVM and +1 as terminator. */
+       new_xattrs = kcalloc(blob_sizes.lbs_xattr + 2, sizeof(*new_xattrs),
+                            GFP_NOFS);
+       if (!new_xattrs)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+
+       hlist_for_each_entry(P, &security_hook_heads.inode_init_security,
+                            list) {
+               ret = P->hook.inode_init_security(inode, dir, qstr, new_xattrs);
+               if (ret && ret != -EOPNOTSUPP)
+                       goto out;
+               if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
+                       continue;

In this context, -EOPNOTSUPP originally signified that the filesystem
does not support writing xattrs.  Writing any xattr would fail. 
Returning -ENODATA for no LSM xattr(s) data would seem to be more
appropriate than -EOPNOTSUPP.

thanks,

Mimi

+               /*
+                * As the number of xattrs reserved by LSMs is not directly
+                * available, directly use the total number blob_sizes.lbs_xattr
+                * to keep the code simple, while being not the most efficient
+                * way.
+                */
+               ret = security_check_compact_filled_xattrs(new_xattrs,
+                                                          blob_sizes.lbs_xattr,
+                                                          &num_filled_xattrs);
+               if (ret < 0) {
+                       ret = -ENOMEM;
+                       goto out;
+               }
+       }
+
+       if (!num_filled_xattrs)
                goto out;
 
-       evm_xattr = lsm_xattr + 1;
-       ret = evm_inode_init_security(inode, lsm_xattr, evm_xattr);
+       ret = evm_inode_init_security(inode, new_xattrs,
+                                     new_xattrs + num_filled_xattrs);
        if (ret)
                goto out;
        ret = initxattrs(inode, new_xattrs, fs_data);
 out:
        for (xattr = new_xattrs; xattr->value != NULL; xattr++)
                kfree(xattr->value);
+       kfree(new_xattrs);
        return (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP) ? 0 : ret;
 }

b