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* [PATCH v3 0/2] integrity: Return error codes in audit messages
@ 2026-09-16 21:36 Frederick Lawler
  2026-09-16 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] integrity: Report error code in integrity_audit_msg() call sites Frederick Lawler
  2026-09-16 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] integrity: Replace integrity_audit_message() with integrity_audit_msg() Frederick Lawler
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From: Frederick Lawler @ 2026-09-16 21:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mimi Zohar, Roberto Sassu, Dmitry Kasatkin, Eric Snowberg,
	Paul Moore, James Morris, Serge E. Hallyn
  Cc: linux-integrity, linux-security-module, linux-kernel,
	kernel-team, Frederick Lawler

Commit 2f845882ecd2 ("integrity: Add errno field in audit message")
introduced an audit log function that can take an error code. It is
wrapped by integrity_audit_msg() that implicitly sets the error code
argument to zero. The problem is that there are uses of integrity_audit_msg()
such as ima_collect_measurement() that hide the failure cause for
the message.

This series aims to clarify error reasons for failures, and then expose
error codes based on the following criteria:

    1. The log depends on a result from earlier callee, and/or
    2. The caller function itself returns with that result

ima_release_policy() is the only caller I thought made sense to keep as
is. The message doesn't correlate with a return code, nor does it
depend on a result from an earlier callee in the function.

Signed-off-by: Frederick Lawler <fred@cloudflare.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- Condense series to two commits.
- Reduce review churn by adding error code to integrity_audit_msg().
- ima_write_policy() to report -EINVAL instead of result.
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260727-report-hash-error-v2-0-30e394f524fc@cloudflare.com

Changes in v2:
- Changes from v1 are now reflected in patch 3.
- Replace all instances of integrity_audit_msg().
- Convert to patch series.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260716-report-hash-error-v1-1-ac19281112e4@cloudflare.com

---
Frederick Lawler (2):
      integrity: Report error code in integrity_audit_msg() call sites
      integrity: Replace integrity_audit_message() with integrity_audit_msg()

 security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c         |  9 +++++----
 security/integrity/ima/ima_api.c          |  8 ++++----
 security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c     |  6 +++---
 security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c           |  4 ++--
 security/integrity/ima/ima_init.c         |  2 +-
 security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c         | 13 +++++++------
 security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c       | 11 ++++++-----
 security/integrity/ima/ima_queue.c        |  2 +-
 security/integrity/ima/ima_queue_keys.c   |  8 ++++----
 security/integrity/ima/ima_template_lib.c |  2 +-
 security/integrity/integrity.h            | 18 +++---------------
 security/integrity/integrity_audit.c      | 12 ++----------
 12 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 6903878d4654bdef4e08e38cdf1ae306ce7de5f9
change-id: 20260716-report-hash-error-5203d6fe6e4e

Best regards,
-- 
Frederick Lawler <fred@cloudflare.com>


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