[PATCH v5 04/13] ima: Introduce per binary measurements list type binary_runtime_size value

[Mimi Zohar]

On Wed, 2026-04-29 at 18:03 +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huawei.com>
> 
> Make binary_runtime_size as an array, to have separate counters per binary
> measurements list type. Currently, define the BINARY type for the existing
> binary measurements list.
> 
> Introduce ima_update_binary_runtime_size() to facilitate updating a
> binary_runtime_size value with a given binary measurement list type.
> 
> Also add the binary measurements list type parameter to
> ima_get_binary_runtime_size(), to retrieve the desired value. Retrieving
> the value is now done under the ima_extend_list_mutex, since there can be
> concurrent updates.
> 
> No functional change (except for the mutex usage, that fixes the
> concurrency issue): the BINARY array element is equivalent to the old
> binary_runtime_size.

The patch is really clear and well written, but I don't see a concurrency issue
requiring taking the ima_extend_list_mutex at least in this patch.

Mimi

> 
> Link: https://github.com/linux-integrity/linux/issues/1
> Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huawei.com>