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From 88fd362785ae8871537573fd7073e499542b0a0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 10:09:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] create_pack: abort delta handling early when impossible
due to IMA
Currently, deltas cannot be computed for systems using IMA because IMA
relies on a security.ima xattr which changes each time the file
content changes and swupd doesn't support deltas for files with
different xattrs.
It would be worthwhile to add such a support, but that's a bit
complicated (needs to be done in client and server and implies a
format change), so for now just abort early when a security.xattr is
found.
This speeds up delta computation considerably in Ostro OS because it
skips the slow downloading of the old file.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
---
src/delta.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/delta.c b/src/delta.c
index 8fff4c9..d3c4b35 100644
--- a/src/delta.c
+++ b/src/delta.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <attr/xattr.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include "swupd.h"
@@ -64,6 +65,18 @@ void __create_delta(struct file *file, int from_version, int to_version)
string_or_die(&original, "%s/%i/full/%s", conf, from_version, file->peer->filename);
+ if (lgetxattr(newfile, "security.ima", NULL, 0) > 0) {
+ /* There is a non-empty security.ima xattr on the new file.
+ * That xattr contains a hash of the file content. We know that
+ * the file content has changed, so the xattr will be different
+ * from the one on the old file and we can bail out early without
+ * even bothering with retrieving the original file. A better
+ * solution for systems with IMA would be to support deltas even
+ * when xattrs are different.
+ */
+ goto out;
+ }
+
if (access(original, F_OK) &&
content_url) {
/* File does not exist. Try to get it from the online update repo instead.
--
2.1.4
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