This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ima: fix blocking of security.ima xattrs of unsupported algorithms to the 6.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ima-fix-blocking-of-security.ima-xattrs-of-unsupport.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 58cf095bc7cc3642d0c21d5cc90cd06bdb89751b Author: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Aug 17 17:18:42 2022 -0400 ima: fix blocking of security.ima xattrs of unsupported algorithms [ Upstream commit 5926586f291b53cb8a0c9631fc19489be1186e2d ] Limit validating the hash algorithm to just security.ima xattr, not the security.evm xattr or any of the protected EVM security xattrs, nor posix acls. Fixes: 50f742dd9147 ("IMA: block writes of the security.ima xattr with unsupported algorithms") Reported-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c index bde74fcecee3..3e0fbbd99534 100644 --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c @@ -750,22 +750,26 @@ int ima_inode_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *xattr_name, const struct evm_ima_xattr_data *xvalue = xattr_value; int digsig = 0; int result; + int err; result = ima_protect_xattr(dentry, xattr_name, xattr_value, xattr_value_len); if (result == 1) { if (!xattr_value_len || (xvalue->type >= IMA_XATTR_LAST)) return -EINVAL; + + err = validate_hash_algo(dentry, xvalue, xattr_value_len); + if (err) + return err; + digsig = (xvalue->type == EVM_IMA_XATTR_DIGSIG); } else if (!strcmp(xattr_name, XATTR_NAME_EVM) && xattr_value_len > 0) { digsig = (xvalue->type == EVM_XATTR_PORTABLE_DIGSIG); } if (result == 1 || evm_revalidate_status(xattr_name)) { - result = validate_hash_algo(dentry, xvalue, xattr_value_len); - if (result) - return result; - ima_reset_appraise_flags(d_backing_inode(dentry), digsig); + if (result == 1) + result = 0; } return result; }