kernel/linux.git/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c, branch linux-7.0.y

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

ima,evm: move initcalls to the LSM framework

2025-10-22T23:24:27+00:00

This patch converts IMA and EVM to use the LSM frameworks's initcall mechanism. It moved the integrity_fs_init() call to ima_fs_init() and evm_init_secfs(), to work around the fact that there is no "integrity" LSM, and introduced integrity_fs_fini() to remove the integrity directory, if empty. Both integrity_fs_init() and integrity_fs_fini() support the scenario of being called by both the IMA and EVM LSMs. This patch does not touch any of the platform certificate code that lives under the security/integrity/platform_certs directory as the IMA/EVM developers would prefer to address that in a future patchset. Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu Acked-by: Mimi Zohar [PM: adjust description as discussed over email] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

evm_secfs: clear securityfs interactions

2025-06-17T22:10:30+00:00

1) creation never returns NULL; error is reported as ERR_PTR() 2) no need to remove file before removing its parent Acked-by: Mimi Zohar Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: port ->setattr() to pass mnt_idmap

2023-01-19T08:24:02+00:00

Convert to struct mnt_idmap. Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in 256c8aed2b42 ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts"). This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap. Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for bugs. Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems only operate on struct mnt_idmap. Acked-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft)

evm: Don't return an error in evm_write_xattrs() if audit is not enabled

2021-06-03T14:03:40+00:00

This patch avoids that evm_write_xattrs() returns an error when audit is not enabled. The ab variable can be NULL and still be passed to the other audit_log_() functions, as those functions do not include any instruction. Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar

evm: Verify portable signatures against all protected xattrs

2021-06-01T19:17:31+00:00

Currently, the evm_config_default_xattrnames array contains xattr names only related to LSMs which are enabled in the kernel configuration. However, EVM portable signatures do not depend on local information and a vendor might include in the signature calculation xattrs that are not enabled in the target platform. Just including all xattrs names in evm_config_default_xattrnames is not a safe approach, because a target system might have already calculated signatures or HMACs based only on the enabled xattrs. After applying this patch, EVM would verify those signatures and HMACs with all xattrs instead. The non-enabled ones, which could possibly exist, would cause a verification error. Thus, this patch adds a new field named enabled to the xattr_list structure, which is set to true if the LSM associated to a given xattr name is enabled in the kernel configuration. The non-enabled xattrs are taken into account only in evm_calc_hmac_or_hash(), if the passed security.evm type is EVM_XATTR_PORTABLE_DIGSIG. The new function evm_protected_xattr_if_enabled() has been defined so that IMA can include all protected xattrs and not only the enabled ones in the measurement list, if the new template fields xattrnames, xattrlengths or xattrvalues have been included in the template format. Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar

evm: Refuse EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES only if an HMAC key is loaded

2021-05-21T16:47:08+00:00

EVM_ALLOW_METADATA_WRITES is an EVM initialization flag that can be set to temporarily disable metadata verification until all xattrs/attrs necessary to verify an EVM portable signature are copied to the file. This flag is cleared when EVM is initialized with an HMAC key, to avoid that the HMAC is calculated on unverified xattrs/attrs. Currently EVM unnecessarily denies setting this flag if EVM is initialized with a public key, which is not a concern as it cannot be used to trust xattrs/attrs updates. This patch removes this limitation. Fixes: ae1ba1676b88e ("EVM: Allow userland to permit modification of EVM-protected metadata") Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.16.x Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar

evm: fix writing /evm overflow

2021-05-20T23:48:30+00:00

EVM_SETUP_COMPLETE is defined as 0x80000000, which is larger than INT_MAX. The "-fno-strict-overflow" compiler option properly prevents signaling EVM that the EVM policy setup is complete. Define and read an unsigned int. Fixes: f00d79750712 ("EVM: Allow userspace to signal an RSA key has been loaded") Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar

fs: make helpers idmap mount aware

2021-01-24T13:27:20+00:00

Extend some inode methods with an additional user namespace argument. A filesystem that is aware of idmapped mounts will receive the user namespace the mount has been marked with. This can be used for additional permission checking and also to enable filesystems to translate between uids and gids if they need to. We have implemented all relevant helpers in earlier patches. As requested we simply extend the exisiting inode method instead of introducing new ones. This is a little more code churn but it's mostly mechanical and doesnt't leave us with additional inode methods. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-25-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: David Howells Cc: Al Viro Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner