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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2009-05-12 15:13:55 -0400
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2009-05-15 09:55:41 +1000
commitf850a7c040d9faafb41bceb0a05d6bb7432c8c7a (patch)
treee4e1fa97be0bd3e749f993b99d18746c8a9737ba /security/integrity/ima
parentb103387037cea2ba0f04b44d408d54c53f678061 (diff)
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IMA: remove read permissions on the ima policy file
The IMA policy file does not implement read. Trying to just open/read/close the file will load a blank policy and you cannot then change the policy without a reboot. This removes the read permission from the file so one must at least be attempting to write... Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/integrity/ima')
-rw-r--r--security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
index ffbe259..3305a96 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
* implemenents security file system for reporting
* current measurement list and IMA statistics
*/
+#include <linux/fcntl.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/rculist.h>
@@ -283,6 +284,9 @@ static atomic_t policy_opencount = ATOMIC_INIT(1);
*/
int ima_open_policy(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
{
+ /* No point in being allowed to open it if you aren't going to write */
+ if (!(filp->f_flags & O_WRONLY))
+ return -EACCES;
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&policy_opencount))
return 0;
return -EBUSY;
@@ -349,7 +353,7 @@ int ima_fs_init(void)
goto out;
ima_policy = securityfs_create_file("policy",
- S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IWUSR,
+ S_IWUSR,
ima_dir, NULL,
&ima_measure_policy_ops);
if (IS_ERR(ima_policy))
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