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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] evm: reset status in evm_inode_post_setattr()
From:   Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
To:     Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>,
        dmitry.kasatkin@huawei.com, mjg59@google.com
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Date:   Mon, 20 May 2019 17:19:55 -0400
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On Thu, 2019-05-16 at 18:12 +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> This patch adds a call to evm_reset_status() in evm_inode_post_setattr(),
> before security.evm is updated. The same is done in the other
> evm_inode_post_* functions.
> 
> Fixes: 523b74b16bcbb ("evm: reset EVM status when file attributes change")
> Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Why all of a sudden do we also need to clear the EVM cached status
when modifying the file attributes?  The HMAC is being recalculated.  
If the reason is because of EVM portable and immutable signatures,
then the "Fixes" tag is incorrect.

Mimi

> ---
>  security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
> index b6d9f14bc234..b41c2d8a8834 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
> @@ -512,8 +512,11 @@ void evm_inode_post_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, int ia_valid)
>  	if (!evm_key_loaded())
>  		return;
>  
> -	if (ia_valid & (ATTR_MODE | ATTR_UID | ATTR_GID))
> +	if (ia_valid & (ATTR_MODE | ATTR_UID | ATTR_GID)) {
> +		evm_reset_status(dentry->d_inode);
> +
>  		evm_update_evmxattr(dentry, NULL, NULL, 0);
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  /*