From 7b2e93207c7cdea34dabb87bbcbcc243b7d16353 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: THOBY Simon Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 08:10:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] IMA: remove the dependency on CRYPTO_MD5 commit 8510505d55e194d3f6c9644c9f9d12c4f6b0395a upstream. MD5 is a weak digest algorithm that shouldn't be used for cryptographic operation. It hinders the efficiency of a patch set that aims to limit the digests allowed for the extended file attribute namely security.ima. MD5 is no longer a requirement for IMA, nor should it be used there. The sole place where we still use the MD5 algorithm inside IMA is setting the ima_hash algorithm to MD5, if the user supplies 'ima_hash=md5' parameter on the command line. With commit ab60368ab6a4 ("ima: Fallback to the builtin hash algorithm"), setting "ima_hash=md5" fails gracefully when CRYPTO_MD5 is not set: ima: Can not allocate md5 (reason: -2) ima: Allocating md5 failed, going to use default hash algorithm sha256 Remove the CRYPTO_MD5 dependency for IMA. Signed-off-by: THOBY Simon Reviewed-by: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian [zohar@linux.ibm.com: include commit number in patch description for stable.] Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.17 Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- security/integrity/ima/Kconfig | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/Kconfig b/security/integrity/ima/Kconfig index 12e9250c1bec..9e72edb8d31a 100644 --- a/security/integrity/ima/Kconfig +++ b/security/integrity/ima/Kconfig @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ config IMA select SECURITYFS select CRYPTO select CRYPTO_HMAC - select CRYPTO_MD5 select CRYPTO_SHA1 select CRYPTO_HASH_INFO select TCG_TPM if HAS_IOMEM && !UML