3.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 3dcbad52cf18c3c379e96b992d22815439ebbe53 upstream. Unless an LSM labels a file during d_instantiate(), newly created files are not labeled with an initial security.evm xattr, until the file closes. EVM, before allowing a protected, security xattr to be written, verifies the existing 'security.evm' value is good. For newly created files without a security.evm label, this verification prevents writing any protected, security xattrs, until the file closes. Following is the example when this happens: fd = open("foo", O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0644); setxattr("foo", "security.SMACK64", value, sizeof(value), 0); close(fd); While INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS status is handled in other places, such as evm_inode_setattr(), it does not handle it in all cases in evm_protect_xattr(). By limiting the use of INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS to newly created files, we can now allow setting "protected" xattrs. Changelog: - limit the use of INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS to IMA identified new files Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c +++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c @@ -284,6 +284,13 @@ static int evm_protect_xattr(struct dent goto out; } evm_status = evm_verify_current_integrity(dentry); + if (evm_status == INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS) { + struct integrity_iint_cache *iint; + + iint = integrity_iint_find(dentry->d_inode); + if (iint && (iint->flags & IMA_NEW_FILE)) + return 0; + } out: if (evm_status != INTEGRITY_PASS) integrity_audit_msg(AUDIT_INTEGRITY_METADATA, dentry->d_inode, -- 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