security: Introduce path_post_mknod hook

In preparation for moving IMA and EVM to the LSM infrastructure, introduce
the path_post_mknod hook.

IMA-appraisal requires all existing files in policy to have a file
hash/signature stored in security.ima. An exception is made for empty files
created by mknod, by tagging them as new files.

LSMs could also take some action after files are created.

The new hook cannot return an error and cannot cause the operation to be
reverted.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index 2997348afcb7..977dd9f7f51a 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -1893,6 +1893,7 @@ int security_path_mkdir(const struct path *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t m
 int security_path_rmdir(const struct path *dir, struct dentry *dentry);
 int security_path_mknod(const struct path *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode,
 			unsigned int dev);
+void security_path_post_mknod(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry);
 int security_path_truncate(const struct path *path);
 int security_path_symlink(const struct path *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 			  const char *old_name);
@@ -1927,6 +1928,10 @@ static inline int security_path_mknod(const struct path *dir, struct dentry *den
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static inline void security_path_post_mknod(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
+					    struct dentry *dentry)
+{ }
+
 static inline int security_path_truncate(const struct path *path)
 {
 	return 0;