3.16.47-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Daniel Glöckner <dg@xxxxxxxxx> commit 1ac202e978e18f045006d75bd549612620c6ec3a upstream. Modifying the attributes of a file makes ima_inode_post_setattr reset the IMA cache flags. So if the file, which has just been created, is opened a second time before the first file descriptor is closed, verification fails since the security.ima xattr has not been written yet. We therefore have to look at the IMA_NEW_FILE even if the file already existed. With this patch there should no longer be an error when cat tries to open testfile: $ rm -f testfile $ ( echo test >&3 ; touch testfile ; cat testfile ) 3>testfile A file being new is no reason to accept that it is missing a digital signature demanded by the policy. Signed-off-by: Daniel Glöckner <dg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c @@ -195,10 +195,11 @@ int ima_appraise_measurement(int func, s cause = "missing-hash"; status = INTEGRITY_NOLABEL; - if (opened & FILE_CREATED) { + if (opened & FILE_CREATED) iint->flags |= IMA_NEW_FILE; + if ((iint->flags & IMA_NEW_FILE) && + !(iint->flags & IMA_DIGSIG_REQUIRED)) status = INTEGRITY_PASS; - } goto out; }