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This allows other parts of the kernel (perhaps a stacked LSM allowing system monitoring, eg. the proposed KRSI LSM [1]) to retrieve the hash of a given file from IMA if it's present in the iint cache. It's true that the existence of the hash means that it's also in the audit logs or in /sys/kernel/security/ima/ascii_runtime_measurements, but it can be difficult to pull that information out for every subsequent exec. This is especially true if a given host has been up for a long time and the file was first measured a long time ago. It should be kept in mind that this function gives access to cached entries which can be removed, for instance on security_inode_free(). This is based on Peter Moody's patch: https://sourceforge.net/p/linux-ima/mailman/message/33036180/ [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/10/393 Signed-off-by: Florent Revest <revest@google.com> Reviewed-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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.