This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ima: change the default hash algorithm to SHA1 in ima_eventdigest_ng_init() to the 3.13-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-change-the-default-hash-algorithm-to-sha1-in-ima_eventdigest_ng_init.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c502c78ba7fb5b9cef71e2bd70f12c38ef26e5ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 19:21:35 +0100 Subject: ima: change the default hash algorithm to SHA1 in ima_eventdigest_ng_init() From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxx> commit c502c78ba7fb5b9cef71e2bd70f12c38ef26e5ab upstream. Replace HASH_ALGO__LAST with HASH_ALGO_SHA1 as the initial value of the hash algorithm so that the prefix 'sha1:' is added to violation digests. Fix commit: 4d7aeee ima: define new template ima-ng and template fields d-ng and n-ng Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- security/integrity/ima/ima_template_lib.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_template_lib.c +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_template_lib.c @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ int ima_eventdigest_ng_init(struct integ struct evm_ima_xattr_data *xattr_value, int xattr_len, struct ima_field_data *field_data) { - u8 *cur_digest = NULL, hash_algo = HASH_ALGO__LAST; + u8 *cur_digest = NULL, hash_algo = HASH_ALGO_SHA1; u32 cur_digestsize = 0; /* If iint is NULL, we are recording a violation. */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.13/ima-change-the-default-hash-algorithm-to-sha1-in-ima_eventdigest_ng_init.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html