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([2a09:bac5:8152:1b37::2b6:1]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ca18e2360f4ac-85e8ff7f50asm1804639f.9.2025.03.27.09.09.24 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 27 Mar 2025 09:09:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Frederick Lawler To: Mimi Zohar , Dmitry Kasatkin , Roberto Sassu Cc: Eric Snowberg , "Serge E. Hallyn" , linux-ima-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-ima-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@cloudfalre.com, Frederick Lawler Subject: [PATCH v3] ima: process_measurement() needlessly takes inode_lock() on MAY_READ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:09:11 -0500 Message-ID: <20250327160916.279090-1-fred@cloudflare.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On IMA policy update, if a measure rule exists in the policy, IMA_MEASURE is set for ima_policy_flags which makes the violation_check variable always true. Coupled with a no-action on MAY_READ for a FILE_CHECK call, we're always taking the inode_lock(). This becomes a performance problem for extremely heavy read-only workloads. Therefore, prevent this only in the case there's no action to be taken. Signed-off-by: Frederick Lawler Acked-by: Roberto Sassu --- Changes since v2: - s/mask & MAY_WRITE/file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE/ Changes since v1: - Add MAY_WRITE && action check to violation_check to avoid MAY_READ only situations --- security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima= _main.c index 9b87556b03a7..bc453f5a7531 100644 --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c @@ -237,7 +237,9 @@ static int process_measurement(struct file *file, const= struct cred *cred, &allowed_algos); violation_check =3D ((func =3D=3D FILE_CHECK || func =3D=3D MMAP_CHECK || func =3D=3D MMAP_CHECK_REQPROT) && - (ima_policy_flag & IMA_MEASURE)); + (ima_policy_flag & IMA_MEASURE) && + ((action & IMA_MEASURE) || + (file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))); if (!action && !violation_check) return 0; =20 --=20 2.43.0