On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 6:53 PM, Mimi Zohar <zo...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> The locking issue isn't with validating the file hash, but with the
> setxattr, chmod, chown syscalls. Each of these syscalls takes the
> i_rwsem exclusively before IMA (or EVM) is called.
Read my email again.
> In setxattr, chmod, chown syscalls, IMA (and EVM) are called after the
> i_rwsem is already taken. So the locking would be:
>
> lock: i_rwsem
> lock: iint->mutex
No.
Two locks. One inner, one outer. Only the actual ones that calculates
the hash would take the outer one. Read my email.
Linus
