[RFC PATCH v3 2/2] ima: force re-appraisal on filesystems with FS_IMA_NO_CACHE

Dongsu Park dongsu at kinvolk.io
Tue Jan 30 18:13:05 UTC 2018


Hi,

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 6:40 PM, Dongsu Park <dongsu at kinvolk.io> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 5:33 PM, Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 06:56 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
...
>> Did you get a chance to make the change and test it?
>
> Alban has been on holidays, so he will be back on Wednesday or so.
> So I'll try to understand what you meant in the last email.
>
> As IMA_DONE_MASK contains all other bitmasks, it's possible to
> optimize the code like this:
>
>         if (test_and_clear_bit(IMA_CHANGE_XATTR, &iint->atomic_flags)) {
>                 iint->flags &= ~IMA_DONE_MASK;
>         } else if (inode->i_sb->s_type->fs_flags & FS_IMA_NO_CACHE) {
>                 iint->flags &= ~IMA_DONE_MASK;
>                 if (action & IMA_MEASURE)
>                         iint->measured_pcrs = 0;
>         }
>
> Is that what you want to see? Please let me know if it's not.
> Tomorrow I will try to test with a new patch.

Today I created a new patch, and tested it. It worked fine.
So I've just sent a new patchset v4. Please see:
https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1598387.html

Thanks,
Dongsu

> Thanks,
> Dongsu
>
>> Mimi
>>
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