This patchset ensure that IMA's modules checking policy: measure func=MODULE_CHECK uid=0 rely on the correct value of CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE, since the way it is today the code completely ignores the module.sig_enforce cmdline param, which behaves in a OR logic with the CONFIG value (CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE || module.sig_enforce). That said, everytime a module would load, in the current checking code, when the kernel was not compiled with the CONFIG set the call to init_module syscall fails with -EACCES: # strace -f -v modprobe <any-module> | grep init_module init_module(0x55b9bcc9bba0, 17763, "") = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) With this patchset the result would rely on the module.sig_enforce cmdline as well. Once the CONFIG is not set, but the param is, the result would be 'success', as it should be: # strace -f -v modprobe <any-module> | grep init_module init_module(0x7f9602d6e010, 386646, "") = 0 The patchset was tested in two different kernels: 4.13.6 (Fedora 27) and 4.14.0-rc4 (integrity-next tree) Bruno E. O. Meneguele (2): module: export module signature enforcement status ima: check signature enforcement against cmdline param instead of CONFIG include/linux/module.h | 2 ++ kernel/module.c | 10 ++++++++++ security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c | 6 +++--- 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 2.13.6