linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 02/13] integrity: Introduce a digest cache

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Message-ID: <84159dc8-d2e5-4c10-9910-b329500862e0@huaweicloud.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Aug 2023 10:21:54 +0200
From:   Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@...weicloud.com>
To:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>, corbet@....net,
        zohar@...ux.ibm.com, dmitry.kasatkin@...il.com,
        paul@...l-moore.com, jmorris@...ei.org, serge@...lyn.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        pbrobinson@...il.com, zbyszek@...waw.pl, hch@....de,
        mjg59@...f.ucam.org, pmatilai@...hat.com, jannh@...gle.com,
        Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 02/13] integrity: Introduce a digest cache

On 8/14/2023 7:03 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Sat Aug 12, 2023 at 1:46 PM EEST, Roberto Sassu wrote:
>> From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@...wei.com>
>>
>> Introduce the digest cache, a structure holding a hash table of digests,
>> extracted from a digest list. Its pointer is stored in the iint of the
> 
> What is iint? I honestly don't know what it is. I first thought that it
> was "int" typoed.

Ops. It is the integrity_iint_cache structure, to retain the 
integrity-specific state of an inode. Will explain that in the next version.

Thanks

Roberto