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From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
	"Kasatkin, Dmitry" <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ima: policy search speedup
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:48:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1355255320.2356.148.camel@falcor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwG31fi9=r0Zta2hoo60vdgM61hbh4BC9Rgs8i7S82Haw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 11:10 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Anyway, the whole "you can do it at file granularity" isn't the bulk
> of my argument (the "we already have the field that makes sense" is).
> But my point is that per-inode is not only the logically more
> straightforward place to do it, it's also the much more flexible place
> to do it. Because it *allows* for things like that.

Ok. To summarize, S_IMA indicates that there is a rule and that the iint
was allocated.  To differentiate between 'haven't looked/don't know' and
'definitely not', we need another bit.  For this, you're suggesting
using IS_PRIVATE()?  Hopefully, I misunderstood.

thanks,

Mimi

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-11 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-22 21:54 [PATCH 0/2] ima: policy search speedup Dmitry Kasatkin
2012-11-22 21:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] vfs: new super block feature flags attribute Dmitry Kasatkin
2012-11-22 21:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] ima: skip policy search for never appraised or measured files Dmitry Kasatkin
2012-11-27 13:42 ` [PATCH 0/2] ima: policy search speedup Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-11 12:51   ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-11 14:08     ` Mimi Zohar
2012-12-11 16:59       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-11 17:40         ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-11 17:55           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-11 18:09             ` Eric Paris
2012-12-11 18:35               ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-11 19:07               ` Mimi Zohar
2012-12-11 22:16                 ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-11 18:10             ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-11 18:29               ` Al Viro
2012-12-11 18:12             ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-11 18:35               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-11 18:53                 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-11 18:18         ` Mimi Zohar
2012-12-11 18:35           ` Eric Paris
2012-12-11 18:59             ` Mimi Zohar
2012-12-11 19:10               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-11 19:48                 ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2012-12-11 20:05                   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-11 20:15                     ` Eric Paris
2012-12-11 20:31                       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-11 20:08                   ` Eric Paris
2012-12-11 22:57                     ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-11 23:02                       ` Eric Paris
2012-12-12 13:56                         ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-12 14:25                           ` Eric Paris

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