Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Fix overlayfs on EVM

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> > > If my assumptions so far are correct, then the effort for making
> > > IMA/EVM work with overlayfs should focus around finding the
> > > places where overlayfs uses lower level vfs interface (often
> > > vfs_xxx helpers) and make sure that the IMA hooks are place
> > > in those lower vfs interfaces, just like vfs_create() patch does
> > > and like vfs_tmpfile() patch did before it.
> >
> > So basically turning on NOIMA for overlayfs while ensuring that integrity
> > checks and operations still perform as expected?
> >
> 
> Yes.
> As far as IMA is concerned, Overlayfs is like a filesystem user from kernel.
> Very similar to knfsd in that respect.

Fabian, if you're thinking of disabling IMA-appraisal on overlay filesystems, 
have you tried defining an appraise policy rule based on the overlayfs
magic number (eg. dont_appraise fsmagic=0x794c7630)?

Mimi




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