evm: add support for different security.evm data types

EVM protects a file's security extended attributes(xattrs) against integrity
attacks. The current patchset maintains an HMAC-sha1 value across the security
xattrs, storing the value as the extended attribute 'security.evm'. We
anticipate other methods for protecting the security extended attributes.
This patch reserves the first byte of 'security.evm' as a place holder for
the type of method.

Changelog v6:
- move evm_ima_xattr_type definition to security/integrity/integrity.h
- defined a structure for the EVM xattr called evm_ima_xattr_data
  (based on Serge Hallyn's suggestion)
- removed unnecessary memset

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
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Dmitry Kasatkin
2011-03-09 14:28:20 -05:00
committed by Mimi Zohar
parent 66dbc325af
commit 6be5cc5246
4 changed files with 24 additions and 9 deletions
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@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ enum integrity_status {
INTEGRITY_UNKNOWN,
};
/* List of EVM protected security xattrs */
#ifdef CONFIG_INTEGRITY
extern int integrity_inode_alloc(struct inode *inode);
extern void integrity_inode_free(struct inode *inode);