Re: [PATCH 1/3] VFS: Add a call to obtain a file's hash

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 11:37 AM Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-10-11 at 11:24 -0700, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > But for a hypothetical case where the filesystem itself
> > verifies the signature, then the filesystem would abort the
> > transaction if the signature didn't match and it seems reasonable to
> > avoid doing the validation twice (once up front and then again on
> > every read)
>
> Right, this is a hypothetical scenario as far as I'm aware, since none
> of the filesystems are currently calculating and storing the file
> hash.  The default should be for IMA to re-calculate the file hash.

There are FUSE filesystems that do.



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