Re: [PATCH 4/5] Ignore IMA / EVM xattrs during copy_up

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On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:27 PM Ignaz Forster <iforster@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Ignaz Forster <iforster@xxxxxxx>
>
> EVM tries to protect these attributes during copy_up, resulting in
> the failure of the copy_up operation.
>
> This patch will skip the attributes (similar to selinux) to allow
> for later recalculation. This, however, introduces another problem:
> As overlayfs does not check the file integrity on copy_up, files with
> an invalid hash will suddenly become valid again after the copy_up
> operation.
>

"overlayfs doesn't check" means the check is to high in vfs and
needs to move to lower vfs layer?
Same as fixes in vfs_create and vfs_tmpfile.

Thanks,
Amir.



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