security: Introduce inode_post_remove_acl hook
authorRoberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 10:31:05 +0000 (11:31 +0100)
committerPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Fri, 16 Feb 2024 04:43:44 +0000 (23:43 -0500)
commit2d705d8024143c272a764320c880ccd3230bb699
tree4c035efcf4b0ef325be26899493647ea3d343f6a
parent8b9d0b825c6573d654c8b8039ea79920926305c2
security: Introduce inode_post_remove_acl hook

In preparation for moving IMA and EVM to the LSM infrastructure, introduce
the inode_post_remove_acl hook.

At inode_remove_acl hook, EVM verifies the file's existing HMAC value. At
inode_post_remove_acl, EVM re-calculates the file's HMAC with the passed
POSIX ACL removed and other file metadata.

Other LSMs could similarly take some action after successful POSIX ACL
removal.

The new hook cannot return an error and cannot cause the operation to be
reverted.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
fs/posix_acl.c
include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h
include/linux/security.h
security/security.c