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[v5,12/12] ima: Don't remove security.ima if file must not be appraised

Message ID 20210407105252.30721-13-roberto.sassu@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series evm: Improve usability of portable signatures | expand

Commit Message

Roberto Sassu April 7, 2021, 10:52 a.m. UTC 
Files might come from a remote source and might have xattrs, including
security.ima. It should not be IMA task to decide whether security.ima
should be kept or not. This patch removes the removexattr() system
call in ima_inode_post_setattr().

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
---
 security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
index 538ccbf972c8..45e244fc2ef2 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c
@@ -532,8 +532,6 @@  void ima_inode_post_setattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
 		return;
 
 	action = ima_must_appraise(mnt_userns, inode, MAY_ACCESS, POST_SETATTR);
-	if (!action)
-		__vfs_removexattr(&init_user_ns, dentry, XATTR_NAME_IMA);
 	iint = integrity_iint_find(inode);
 	if (iint) {
 		set_bit(IMA_CHANGE_ATTR, &iint->atomic_flags);