linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] Do not call 'ima_path

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Message-ID: <20090908015043.GA26051@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:50:43 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Filesystem Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ibm.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Do not call 'ima_path_check()' for each path
	component

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 02:02:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:05:33 -0700
> 
> Not only is that a supremely timing-critical path, but it's hopefully some 
> day going to be lockless for the common case, and ima can't do that.
> 
> Plus the integrity code doesn't even care about non-regular files,
> so it was always a total waste of time and effort.

Haha, nice one.

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