Messages in this thread | | | From | Roberto Sassu <> | Subject | [PATCH-v2 0/3] ima: add support for custom template formats | Date | Fri, 6 Dec 2013 13:57:14 +0100 |
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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 introduces 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.
Changelog: - patch 2/3: fixed patch description (Roberto Sassu, suggested by Mimi Zohar) - patch 3/3: set 'template_name' variable in ima_fs.c only once (Roberto Sassu, suggested by Mimi Zohar) - patch 3/3: simplified code of ima_template_fmt_setup() (Roberto Sassu, suggested by Mimi Zohar) - the patch 'ima: make a copy of template_fmt in template_desc_init_fields()' has been removed from this version of the patch set since it has been already merged in the mainline kernel (commit: dbc335d2d + fix: af91706d5)
Roberto Sassu
Roberto Sassu (3): ima: added error messages to template-related functions 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 | 16 +++++++--- security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 4 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
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