Re: [PATCH] ima: ignore suffixed policy rule comments

[Petr Vorel]

Hi Mimi,

> Lines beginning with '#' in the IMA policy are comments and are ignored.
> Instead of placing the rule and comment on separate lines, allow the
> comment to be suffixed to the IMA policy rule.

+1

Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvo...@suse.cz>

Kind regards,
Petr

> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zo...@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c 
> b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
> index 23bbe2c405f0..128fab897930 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
> @@ -1432,7 +1432,7 @@ static int ima_parse_rule(char *rule, struct 
> ima_rule_entry *entry)
>               int token;
>               unsigned long lnum;

> -             if (result < 0)
> +             if (result < 0 || *p == '#')  /* ignore suffixed comment */
>                       break;
>               if ((*p == '\0') || (*p == ' ') || (*p == '\t'))
>                       continue;