On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 07:57:12PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
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> As I've said before, this commit message needs some work. It currently doesn't
> say anything about what the patch actually does.
>
> BTW, please make sure you're Cc'ing the fsverity mailing list
> (fsverity@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx), not fscrypt (linux-fscrypt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx).
Also, I thought this patch was using a new LSM hook, but I now see that you're
actually abusing the existing security_inode_setsecurity() LSM hook. Currently
that hook is called when an xattr is set. I don't see any precedent for
overloading it for other purposes. This seems problematic, as it means that a
request to set an xattr with the name you chose ("fsverity.builtin-sig") will be
interpreted by LSMs as the fsverity builtin signature. A dedicated LSM hook may
be necessary to avoid issues with overloading the existing xattr hook like this.
- Eric
