ima: add support for creating files using the mknodat syscall

Commit 3034a14 "ima: pass 'opened' flag to identify newly created files"
stopped identifying empty files as new files.  However new empty files
can be created using the mknodat syscall.  On systems with IMA-appraisal
enabled, these empty files are not labeled with security.ima extended
attributes properly, preventing them from subsequently being opened in
order to write the file data contents.  This patch defines a new hook
named ima_post_path_mknod() to mark these empty files, created using
mknodat, as new in order to allow the file data contents to be written.

In addition, files with security.ima xattrs containing a file signature
are considered "immutable" and can not be modified.  The file contents
need to be written, before signing the file.  This patch relaxes this
requirement for new files, allowing the file signature to be written
before the file contents.

Changelog:
- defer identifying files with signatures stored as security.ima
  (based on Dmitry Rozhkov's comments)
- removing tests (eg. dentry, dentry->d_inode, inode->i_size == 0)
  (based on Al's review)

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <<viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Dmitry Rozhkov <dmitry.rozhkov@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ima.h b/include/linux/ima.h
index e6516cbbe9bf..0eb7c2e7f0d6 100644
--- a/include/linux/ima.h
+++ b/include/linux/ima.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ extern int ima_file_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long prot);
 extern int ima_read_file(struct file *file, enum kernel_read_file_id id);
 extern int ima_post_read_file(struct file *file, void *buf, loff_t size,
 			      enum kernel_read_file_id id);
+extern void ima_post_path_mknod(struct dentry *dentry);
 
 #else
 static inline int ima_bprm_check(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
@@ -54,6 +55,11 @@ static inline int ima_post_read_file(struct file *file, void *buf, loff_t size,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static inline void ima_post_path_mknod(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	return;
+}
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_IMA */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_IMA_APPRAISE