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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 10:54:10 +0100
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 14/25] security: Introduce path_post_mknod hook
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 07:17:58PM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
> 
> In preparation for moving IMA and EVM to the LSM infrastructure, introduce
> the path_post_mknod hook.
> 
> IMA-appraisal requires all existing files in policy to have a file
> hash/signature stored in security.ima. An exception is made for empty files
> created by mknod, by tagging them as new files.
> 
> LSMs could also take some action after files are created.
> 
> The new hook cannot return an error and cannot cause the operation to be
> reverted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  fs/namei.c                    |  5 +++++

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>