ima: Write the policy filename into IMA's sysfs policy file (#4766)

IMA validates file signatures based on the security.ima xattr. As of
Linux-4.7, instead of copying the IMA policy into the securityfs policy,
the IMA policy pathname can be written, allowing the IMA policy file
signature to be validated.

This patch modifies the existing code to first attempt to write the
pathname, but on failure falls back to copying the IMA policy contents.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/ima-setup.c b/src/core/ima-setup.c
index d1b0ce76ef..94ae429f46 100644
--- a/src/core/ima-setup.c
+++ b/src/core/ima-setup.c
@@ -44,6 +44,22 @@ int ima_setup(void) {
                 return 0;
         }
 
+        if (access(IMA_SECFS_POLICY, W_OK) < 0) {
+                log_warning("Another IMA custom policy has already been loaded, ignoring.");
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        imafd = open(IMA_SECFS_POLICY, O_WRONLY|O_CLOEXEC);
+        if (imafd < 0) {
+                log_error_errno(errno, "Failed to open the IMA kernel interface "IMA_SECFS_POLICY", ignoring: %m");
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        /* attempt to write the name of the policy file into sysfs file */
+        if (write(imafd, IMA_POLICY_PATH, strlen(IMA_POLICY_PATH)) > 0)
+                goto done;
+
+        /* fall back to copying the policy line-by-line */
         input = fopen(IMA_POLICY_PATH, "re");
         if (!input) {
                 log_full_errno(errno == ENOENT ? LOG_DEBUG : LOG_WARNING, errno,
@@ -51,10 +67,7 @@ int ima_setup(void) {
                 return 0;
         }
 
-        if (access(IMA_SECFS_POLICY, F_OK) < 0) {
-                log_warning("Another IMA custom policy has already been loaded, ignoring.");
-                return 0;
-        }
+        close(imafd);
 
         imafd = open(IMA_SECFS_POLICY, O_WRONLY|O_CLOEXEC);
         if (imafd < 0) {
@@ -74,6 +87,7 @@ int ima_setup(void) {
                                                lineno);
         }
 
+done:
         log_info("Successfully loaded the IMA custom policy "IMA_POLICY_PATH".");
 #endif /* HAVE_IMA */
         return 0;