This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ovl: Always reevaluate the file signature for IMA to the 5.15-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: ovl-always-reevaluate-the-file-signature-for-ima.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 44c05aa157bffd242c90a2a2545dd6a557e49193 Author: Eric Snowberg <eric.snowberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jul 25 17:56:46 2023 -0400 ovl: Always reevaluate the file signature for IMA [ Upstream commit 18b44bc5a67275641fb26f2c54ba7eef80ac5950 ] Commit db1d1e8b9867 ("IMA: use vfs_getattr_nosec to get the i_version") partially closed an IMA integrity issue when directly modifying a file on the lower filesystem. If the overlay file is first opened by a user and later the lower backing file is modified by root, but the extended attribute is NOT updated, the signature validation succeeds with the old original signature. Update the super_block s_iflags to SB_I_IMA_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE to force signature reevaluation on every file access until a fine grained solution can be found. Signed-off-by: Eric Snowberg <eric.snowberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index 5310271cf2e38..e18025b5c8872 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -2140,7 +2140,7 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) ovl_trusted_xattr_handlers; sb->s_fs_info = ofs; sb->s_flags |= SB_POSIXACL; - sb->s_iflags |= SB_I_SKIP_SYNC; + sb->s_iflags |= SB_I_SKIP_SYNC | SB_I_IMA_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE; err = -ENOMEM; root_dentry = ovl_get_root(sb, upperpath.dentry, oe);