kernel_optimize_test/security
Mimi Zohar f9b2a735bd ima: audit log files opened with O_DIRECT flag
Files are measured or appraised based on the IMA policy.  When a
file, in policy, is opened with the O_DIRECT flag, a deadlock
occurs.

The first attempt at resolving this lockdep temporarily removed the
O_DIRECT flag and restored it, after calculating the hash.  The
second attempt introduced the O_DIRECT_HAVELOCK flag. Based on this
flag, do_blockdev_direct_IO() would skip taking the i_mutex a second
time.  The third attempt, by Dmitry Kasatkin, resolves the i_mutex
locking issue, by re-introducing the IMA mutex, but uncovered
another problem.  Reading a file with O_DIRECT flag set, writes
directly to userspace pages.  A second patch allocates a user-space
like memory.  This works for all IMA hooks, except ima_file_free(),
which is called on __fput() to recalculate the file hash.

Until this last issue is addressed, do not 'collect' the
measurement for measuring, appraising, or auditing files opened
with the O_DIRECT flag set.  Based on policy, permit or deny file
access.  This patch defines a new IMA policy rule option named
'permit_directio'.  Policy rules could be defined, based on LSM
or other criteria, to permit specific applications to open files
with the O_DIRECT flag set.

Changelog v1:
- permit or deny file access based IMA policy rules

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2014-06-03 14:21:50 -05:00
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apparmor security: replace strict_strto*() with kstrto*() 2014-02-06 19:11:04 +11:00
integrity ima: audit log files opened with O_DIRECT flag 2014-06-03 14:21:50 -05:00
keys security: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table 2014-04-15 13:39:58 +10:00
selinux selinux: conditionally reschedule in hashtab_insert while loading selinux policy 2014-06-03 14:21:50 -05:00
smack Merge branch 'smack-for-3.16' of git://git.gitorious.org/smack-next/kernel into next 2014-05-20 14:50:09 +10:00
tomoyo
yama
capability.c Merge tag 'keys-20140314' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs into next 2014-04-14 11:42:49 +10:00
commoncap.c
device_cgroup.c cgroup: replace cftype->read_seq_string() with cftype->seq_show() 2013-12-05 12:28:04 -05:00
inode.c
Kconfig security: select correct default LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR on arm on arm64 2014-02-05 14:59:14 +00:00
lsm_audit.c Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2013-11-21 19:18:14 -08:00
Makefile security: cleanup Makefiles to use standard syntax for specifying sub-directories 2014-02-17 11:08:04 +11:00
min_addr.c
security.c Merge tag 'keys-20140314' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs into next 2014-04-14 11:42:49 +10:00