linux-kernel - Re: ima: use of radix tree cache indexing == massive waste of memory?

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Date:	Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:10:29 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ibm.com>,
	warthog9@...nel.org, devel@...ts.fedoraprojet.org
Subject: Re: ima: use of radix tree cache indexing == massive waste of memory?

I'm confused ... what makes you think we are?  This might have been an unintentional misconfiguration...

"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.org> wrote:

>Besides the algorithmic problems with ima, why is kernel.org using
>IMA to start with?  Except for IBM looking for a reason to jusity why
>TPM isn't a completely waster of ressources it's pointless.  And it was
>only merged under the premise that it would not affect innocent normal
>users.
>

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