linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] integrity: subsystem fixes for v6.17

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Message-ID: <807ead8fdb2761721a4d79b89efb385420a0d6f0.camel@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 08:52:07 -0400
From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-integrity <linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel
	 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] integrity: subsystem fixes for v6.17

Hi Linus,

With hesitancy, I'm sending this pull request containing a single commit to
permit disabling IMA from the boot command line for just the kdump kernel. The
exception itself sort of makes sense. My concern is that exceptions do not
remain as exceptions, but somehow morph to become the norm [1].

Permit disabling IMA from the boot command line as an exception for just the
kdump kernel.

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/b1b5feaa93922c9b5a8f1a1e41385d266fe640ce.camel@linux.ibm.com/

thanks,

Mimi

The following changes since commit e04c78d86a9699d136910cfc0bdcf01087e3267e:

  Linux 6.16-rc2 (2025-06-15 13:49:41 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity.git/ tags/integrity-v6.17

for you to fetch changes up to aa9bb1b32594cd67cafd29b330b158128b503882:

  ima: add a knob ima= to allow disabling IMA in kdump kernel (2025-06-16 09:15:13 -0400)

----------------------------------------------------------------
integrity-v6.17

----------------------------------------------------------------
Baoquan He (1):
      ima: add a knob ima= to allow disabling IMA in kdump kernel

 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  5 +++++
 security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c               | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)