evm: prohibit userspace writing 'security.evm' HMAC value
authorMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sun, 11 May 2014 04:05:23 +0000 (00:05 -0400)
committerMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:58:07 +0000 (17:58 -0400)
Calculating the 'security.evm' HMAC value requires access to the
EVM encrypted key.  Only the kernel should have access to it.  This
patch prevents userspace tools(eg. setfattr, cp --preserve=xattr)
from setting/modifying the 'security.evm' HMAC value directly.

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>

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