linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] ima: add a new CONFIG for loading arch-specific policies

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Message-Id: <1583941375.5293.33.camel@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Mar 2020 11:42:55 -0400
From:   Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.ibm.com>, linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Philipp Rudo <prudo@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ima: add a new CONFIG for loading arch-specific
 policies

On Sun, 2020-03-08 at 20:57 -0400, Nayna Jain wrote:
> From: Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Every time a new architecture defines the IMA architecture specific
> functions - arch_ima_get_secureboot() and arch_ima_get_policy(), the IMA
> include file needs to be updated. To avoid this "noise", this patch
> defines a new IMA Kconfig IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT option, allowing
> the different architectures to select it.
> 
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
> Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@...ux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>

Thanks, Michael for the suggestion of using "imply".  Seems to be
working nicely.  Thanks, Nayna.  I pushed this patch out to next-
integrity-testing.  Could we get some tags on this version of the
patch?

thanks,

Mimi