releases/6.6.107/ima-limit-the-number-of-tomtou-integrity-violations.patch

From stable+bounces-178946-greg=kroah.com@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep  8 20:02:00 2025
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: Mon,  8 Sep 2025 14:01:51 -0400
Subject: ima: limit the number of ToMToU integrity violations
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>, Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>, Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>, Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <20250908180151.1333407-1-sashal@kernel.org>

From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>

[ Upstream commit a414016218ca97140171aa3bb926b02e1f68c2cc ]

Each time a file in policy, that is already opened for read, is opened
for write, a Time-of-Measure-Time-of-Use (ToMToU) integrity violation
audit message is emitted and a violation record is added to the IMA
measurement list.  This occurs even if a ToMToU violation has already
been recorded.

Limit the number of ToMToU integrity violations per file open for read.

Note: The IMA_MAY_EMIT_TOMTOU atomic flag must be set from the reader
side based on policy.  This may result in a per file open for read
ToMToU violation.

Since IMA_MUST_MEASURE is only used for violations, rename the atomic
IMA_MUST_MEASURE flag to IMA_MAY_EMIT_TOMTOU.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # applies cleanly up to linux-6.6
Tested-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
[ adapted IMA flag definitions location from ima.h to integrity.h ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c |   16 +++++++++++-----
 security/integrity/integrity.h    |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
@@ -128,16 +128,22 @@ static void ima_rdwr_violation_check(str
 		if (atomic_read(&inode->i_readcount) && IS_IMA(inode)) {
 			if (!iint)
 				iint = integrity_iint_find(inode);
+
 			/* IMA_MEASURE is set from reader side */
-			if (iint && test_bit(IMA_MUST_MEASURE,
-						&iint->atomic_flags))
+			if (iint && test_and_clear_bit(IMA_MAY_EMIT_TOMTOU,
+						       &iint->atomic_flags))
 				send_tomtou = true;
 		}
 	} else {
 		if (must_measure)
-			set_bit(IMA_MUST_MEASURE, &iint->atomic_flags);
-		if (inode_is_open_for_write(inode) && must_measure)
-			send_writers = true;
+			set_bit(IMA_MAY_EMIT_TOMTOU, &iint->atomic_flags);
+
+		/* Limit number of open_writers violations */
+		if (inode_is_open_for_write(inode) && must_measure) {
+			if (!test_and_set_bit(IMA_EMITTED_OPENWRITERS,
+					      &iint->atomic_flags))
+				send_writers = true;
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (!send_tomtou && !send_writers)
--- a/security/integrity/integrity.h
+++ b/security/integrity/integrity.h
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@
 #define IMA_UPDATE_XATTR	1
 #define IMA_CHANGE_ATTR		2
 #define IMA_DIGSIG		3
-#define IMA_MUST_MEASURE	4
+#define IMA_MAY_EMIT_TOMTOU	4
+#define IMA_EMITTED_OPENWRITERS	5
 
 enum evm_ima_xattr_type {
 	IMA_XATTR_DIGEST = 0x01,