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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2010-04-20 10:21:24 -0400
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2010-04-21 09:58:16 +1000
commit7233e3ee22b1506723411fe437bcf69f678e8cdd (patch)
tree3d84d037890a9918ed02b89fde875fd6e6cd3b10 /security/integrity
parent28ef4002ec7b4be27f1110b83e255df8159c786a (diff)
downloadlinux-7233e3ee22b1506723411fe437bcf69f678e8cdd.tar.gz
IMA: handle comments in policy
IMA policy load parser will reject any policies with a comment.  This patch
will allow the parser to just ignore lines which start with a #.  This is not
very robust.  # can ONLY be used at the very beginning of a line.  Inline
comments are not allowed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/integrity')
-rw-r--r--security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c21
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
index 1bc9e31ae250..babc5009756d 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
@@ -445,19 +445,26 @@ ssize_t ima_parse_add_rule(char *rule)
 
 	p = strsep(&rule, "\n");
 	len = strlen(p) + 1;
+
+	if (*p == '#') {
+		kfree(entry);
+		return len;
+	}
+
 	result = ima_parse_rule(p, entry);
-	if (!result) {
-		result = len;
-		mutex_lock(&ima_measure_mutex);
-		list_add_tail(&entry->list, &measure_policy_rules);
-		mutex_unlock(&ima_measure_mutex);
-	} else {
+	if (result) {
 		kfree(entry);
 		integrity_audit_msg(AUDIT_INTEGRITY_STATUS, NULL,
 				    NULL, op, "invalid policy", result,
 				    audit_info);
+		return result;
 	}
-	return result;
+
+	mutex_lock(&ima_measure_mutex);
+	list_add_tail(&entry->list, &measure_policy_rules);
+	mutex_unlock(&ima_measure_mutex);
+
+	return len;
 }
 
 /* ima_delete_rules called to cleanup invalid policy */