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From "ima: Fix rule parsing bugs and extend KEXEC_CMDLINE rule support" coverletter. This series ultimately extends the supported IMA rule conditionals for the KEXEC_CMDLINE hook function. As of today, there's an imbalance in IMA language conditional support for KEXEC_CMDLINE rules in comparison to KEXEC_KERNEL_CHECK and KEXEC_INITRAMFS_CHECK rules. The KEXEC_CMDLINE rules do not support *any* conditionals so you cannot have a sequence of rules like this: dont_measure func=KEXEC_KERNEL_CHECK obj_type=foo_t dont_measure func=KEXEC_INITRAMFS_CHECK obj_type=foo_t dont_measure func=KEXEC_CMDLINE obj_type=foo_t measure func=KEXEC_KERNEL_CHECK measure func=KEXEC_INITRAMFS_CHECK measure func=KEXEC_CMDLINE Instead, KEXEC_CMDLINE rules can only be measured or not measured and there's no additional flexibility in today's implementation of the KEXEC_CMDLINE hook function. With this series, the above sequence of rules becomes valid and any calls to kexec_file_load() with a kernel and initramfs inode type of foo_t will not be measured (that includes the kernel cmdline buffer) while all other objects given to a kexec_file_load() syscall will be measured. There's obviously not an inode directly associated with the kernel cmdline buffer but this patch series ties the inode based decision making for KEXEC_CMDLINE to the kernel's inode. I think this will be intuitive to policy authors. While reading IMA code and preparing to make this change, I realized that the buffer based hook functions (KEXEC_CMDLINE and KEY_CHECK) are quite special in comparison to longer standing hook functions. These buffer based hook functions can only support measure actions and there are some restrictions on the conditionals that they support. However, the rule parser isn't enforcing any of those restrictions and IMA policy authors wouldn't have any immediate way of knowing that the policy that they wrote is invalid. For example, the sequence of rules above parses successfully in today's kernel but the "dont_measure func=KEXEC_CMDLINE ..." rule is incorrectly handled in ima_match_rules(). The dont_measure rule is *always* considered to be a match so, surprisingly, no KEXEC_CMDLINE measurements are made. While making the rule parser more strict, I realized that the parser does not correctly free all of the allocated memory associated with an ima_rule_entry when going down some error paths. Invalid policy loaded by the policy administrator could result in small memory leaks. |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.