linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] ima: don't access a file's integrity status before an IMA policy is loaded

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Message-ID: <92d2e1860d209fe22f8ae5696fc9496e15dd2b31.camel@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 Mar 2021 14:02:27 -0400
From:   Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ima: don't access a file's integrity status before
 an IMA policy is loaded

On Mon, 2021-03-22 at 09:51 -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:42:06AM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > Only after an IMA policy is loaded, check, save, or update the cached
> > file's integrity status.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>
> 
> This commit message doesn't describe what the actual effect of this change is.
> Is it fixing something?

No, it's just short circuiting out even earlier, but isn't needed.

Mimi