kernel/linux.git/security/integrity/evm, branch v7.0-rc7

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

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group space (Heming Zhao) - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar) - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the page size (Pnina Feder) - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek) - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli) - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport) - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain) - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav) - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into more appropriate places (Yury Norov) - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov) - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin) * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits) watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat() watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs() kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages() tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list list: add kunit test for private list primitives list: add primitives for private list manipulations delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task() RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap() android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas ...

evm: Use ordered xattrs list to calculate HMAC in evm_init_hmac()

2026-01-23T19:31:41+00:00

Commit 8e5d9f916a96 ("smack: deduplicate xattr setting in smack_inode_init_security()") introduced xattr_dupval() to simplify setting the xattrs to be provided by the SMACK LSM on inode creation, in the smack_inode_init_security(). Unfortunately, moving lsm_get_xattr_slot() caused the SMACK64TRANSMUTE xattr be added in the array of new xattrs before SMACK64. This causes the HMAC of xattrs calculated by evm_init_hmac() for new files to diverge from the one calculated by both evm_calc_hmac_or_hash() and evmctl. evm_init_hmac() calculates the HMAC of the xattrs of new files based on the order LSMs provide them, while evm_calc_hmac_or_hash() and evmctl calculate the HMAC based on an ordered xattrs list. Fix the issue by making evm_init_hmac() calculate the HMAC of new files based on the ordered xattrs list too. Fixes: 8e5d9f916a96 ("smack: deduplicate xattr setting in smack_inode_init_security()") Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar

kernel.h: drop hex.h and update all hex.h users

2026-01-21T03:44:19+00:00

Remove from and update all users/callers of hex.h interfaces to directly #include as part of the process of putting kernel.h on a diet. Removing hex.h from kernel.h means that 36K C source files don't have to pay the price of parsing hex.h for the roughly 120 C source files that need it. This change has been build-tested with allmodconfig on most ARCHes. Also, all users/callers of in the entire source tree have been updated if needed (if not already #included). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215005206.2362276-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

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

lsm: replace the name field with a pointer to the lsm_id struct

2025-10-22T23:24:18+00:00

Reduce the duplication between the lsm_id struct and the DEFINE_LSM() definition by linking the lsm_id struct directly into the individual LSM's DEFINE_LSM() instance. Linking the lsm_id into the LSM definition also allows us to simplify the security_add_hooks() function by removing the code which populates the lsm_idlist[] array and moving it into the normal LSM startup code where the LSM list is parsed and the individual LSMs are enabled, making for a cleaner implementation with less overhead at boot. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: John Johansen Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar 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

integrity: fix typos and spelling errors

2025-02-05T02:36:43+00:00

Fix typos and spelling errors in integrity module comments that were identified using the codespell tool. No functional changes - documentation only. Signed-off-by: Tanya Agarwal Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar

evm: stop avoidably reading i_writecount in evm_file_release

2024-10-10T02:49:40+00:00

The EVM_NEW_FILE flag is unset if the file already existed at the time of open and this can be checked without looking at i_writecount. Not accessing it reduces traffic on the cacheline during parallel open of the same file and drop the evm_file_release routine from second place to bottom of the profile. Fixes: 75a323e604fc ("evm: Make it independent from 'integrity' LSM") Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik Reviewed-by: Roberto Sassu Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.9+ Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar