On Fri, 2020-07-10 at 14:42 -0500, Tyler Hicks wrote:
 On 2020-06-29 17:30:03, Mimi Zohar wrote:
 > [Cc'ing the audit mailing list]
 > 
 > On Mon, 2020-06-29 at 10:30 -0500, Tyler Hicks wrote:
 > > 
 > > diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima.h b/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
 > > index ff2bf57ff0c7..5d62ee8319f4 100644
 > > --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
 > > +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
 > > @@ -419,24 +419,24 @@ static inline void ima_free_modsig(struct modsig
*modsig)
 > >  /* LSM based policy rules require audit */
 > >  #ifdef CONFIG_IMA_LSM_RULES
 > >  
 > > -#define security_filter_rule_init security_audit_rule_init
 > > -#define security_filter_rule_free security_audit_rule_free
 > > -#define security_filter_rule_match security_audit_rule_match
 > > +#define ima_audit_rule_init security_audit_rule_init
 > > +#define ima_audit_rule_free security_audit_rule_free
 > > +#define ima_audit_rule_match security_audit_rule_match
 > 
 > Instead of defining an entirely new method of identifying files, IMA
 > piggybacks on top of the existing audit rule syntax.  IMA policy rules
 > "filter" based on this information.
 > 
 > IMA already audits security/integrity related events.  Using the word
 > "audit" here will make things even more confusing than they currently
 > are.  Renaming these functions as ima_audit_rule_XXX provides no
 > benefit.  At that point, IMA might as well call the
 > security_audit_rule prefixed function names directly.  As a quick fix,
 > rename them as "ima_filter_rule".
 > 
 > The correct solution would probably be to rename these prefixed
 > "security_audit_rule" functions as "security_filter_rule", so
that
 > both the audit subsystem and IMA could use them.
 
 There doesn't seem to be any interest, from the audit side, in re-using
 these. I don't quite understand why they would want to use them since
 they're just simple wrappers around the security_audit_rule_*()
 functions. 
The security_filter_rule_* wasn't meant to be in addition, but as a
replacement for security_audit_rule_*
 
 I'll go the "quick fix" route of renaming them as ima_filter_rule_*().
That's fine.
Mimi