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This is in preparation to add a helper for BPF LSM programs to use IMA hashes when attached to LSM hooks. There are LSM hooks like inode_unlink which do not have a struct file * argument and cannot use the existing ima_file_hash API. An inode based API is, therefore, useful in LSM based detections like an executable trying to delete itself which rely on the inode_unlink LSM hook. Moreover, the ima_file_hash function does nothing with the struct file pointer apart from calling file_inode on it and converting it to an inode. Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201124151210.1081188-2-kpsingh@chromium.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.