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Matthew Garrett ae1ba1676b EVM: Allow userland to permit modification of EVM-protected metadata
When EVM is enabled it forbids modification of metadata protected by
EVM unless there is already a valid EVM signature. If any modification
is made, the kernel will then generate a new EVM HMAC. However, this
does not map well on use cases which use only asymmetric EVM signatures,
as in this scenario the kernel is unable to generate new signatures.

This patch extends the /sys/kernel/security/evm interface to allow
userland to request that modification of these xattrs be permitted. This
is only permitted if no keys have already been loaded. In this
configuration, modifying the metadata will invalidate the EVM appraisal
on the file in question. This allows packaging systems to write out new
files, set the relevant extended attributes and then move them into
place.

There's also some refactoring of the use of evm_initialized in order to
avoid heading down codepaths that assume there's a key available.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-12-11 14:27:31 -05:00
Documentation EVM: Allow userland to permit modification of EVM-protected metadata 2017-12-11 14:27:31 -05:00
arch ARM: SoC fixes for 4.15-rc 2017-12-10 08:26:59 -08:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-12-01 08:05:45 -05:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto X.509: fix comparisons of ->pkey_algo 2017-12-08 15:13:29 +00:00
drivers ARM: SoC fixes for 4.15-rc 2017-12-10 08:26:59 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs hpfs: don't bother with the i_version counter or f_version 2017-12-10 12:58:18 -08:00
include KVM fixes for v4.15-rc3 2017-12-10 08:24:16 -08:00
init EXPERT Kconfig menu: fix broken EXPERT menu 2017-11-17 16:10:05 -08:00
ipc Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz) 2017-11-27 13:05:09 -08:00
kernel futex: futex_wake_op, fix sign_extend32 sign bits 2017-12-10 12:50:57 -08:00
lib Keyrings fixes 2017-12-09 14:39:48 +11:00
mm kmemcheck: rip it out for real 2017-12-08 13:40:17 -08:00
net tcp: evaluate packet losses upon RTT change 2017-12-08 14:14:11 -05:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2017-12-03 13:08:30 -05:00
scripts A handful of documentation fixes. The most significant of these addresses 2017-12-04 13:55:28 -08:00
security EVM: Allow userland to permit modification of EVM-protected metadata 2017-12-11 14:27:31 -05:00
sound sound fixes for 4.15-rc3 2017-12-06 10:49:14 -08:00
tools kmemcheck: rip it out for real 2017-12-08 13:40:17 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: x86: fix APIC page invalidation 2017-12-06 16:10:34 +01:00
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.mailmap Add Jason Gunthorpe as co-maintainer of the RDMA stack 2017-11-17 09:36:18 -08:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: SoC fixes for 4.15-rc 2017-12-10 08:26:59 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.15-rc3 2017-12-10 17:56:26 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.