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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] ima: add support for custom template formats
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On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 15:00 +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> currently accepted patches for the new template management mechanism allow to
> choose among a list of supported templates, statically defined in the code.
> This functionality is not flexible enough as users may want to include
> in their measurements list only information needed and not use predefined
> combinations.
>
> For this reason, this patch set introduce the new kernel command line parameter
> 'ima_template_fmt' to specify a custom template format at boot time,
> i.e. a string of template fields identifiers concatenated with the '|'
> separator character. The complete list of defined template fields can be
> found in Documentation/security/IMA-templates.txt.
>
> The format string is checked at the very beginning in the setup function
> ima_template_fmt_setup() so that, if it is wrong, IMA can go back to the
> default template, selected through a kernel configuration option.
>
> To allow userspace tools parse a measurements list with a custom format, IMA
> provides as template name the same format string provided by users at boot
> time, so that tools know which information are included in a entry and extract
> them if they can handle listed template fields.
>
> Roberto Sassu

Cool, this is a really nice patchset!

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>

>
> Roberto Sassu (4):
> ima: added error messages to template-related functions
> ima: make a copy of template_fmt in template_desc_init_fields()
> ima: display template format in meas. list if template name length is
> zero
> ima: added support for new kernel cmdline parameter ima_template_fmt
>
> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++
> Documentation/security/IMA-templates.txt | 29 +++++++------
> security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c | 18 ++++++--
> security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 4 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>




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