Re: ima: use of radix tree cache indexing == massive waste of memory?

Dave Chinner
2010-10-18T09:30:10Z

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:36:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:25:30 -0400 Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> wrote:
>
> > Subject: [PATCH] ima: allow it to be completely disabled (and default to off)
>
> Good enough as a short-term thing I guess.
>
> But the memory consumption which David described is plain nuttiness and
> needs to be fixed, presumably by using a more appropriate data structure
> for lookups.
>
> However unless I missed it, nobody has yet stated that they intend to
> fix this?

I think Eric said he is going to look at it.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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