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From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, safford@watson.ibm.com,
	serue@linux.vnet.ibm.com, zohar@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][Patch 2/3]integrity: IMA as an integrity service provider
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:18:26 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Line.LNX.4.64.0706192217040.19316@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1182199326.8577.6.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Mimi Zohar wrote:


> +/* what could we exclude
> + *   - non-executable/non-library files ?
> + *   - /proc /dev ?
> + * Only measure files opened for read-only or execute
> + */
> +static int skip_measurement(struct inode *inode, int mask)
> +{
> +	if ((inode->i_sb->s_magic == PROC_SUPER_MAGIC) ||
> +	    (inode->i_sb->s_magic == SYSFS_MAGIC)) {
> +		return 1;	/*can't measure */
> +	}

I'm pretty sure you should skip measurement for many more pseudo 
filesystems than this.



- James
-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-20  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-18 20:42 [RFC][Patch 2/3]integrity: IMA as an integrity service provider Mimi Zohar
2007-06-20  2:18 ` James Morris [this message]
2007-06-20 14:48   ` Mimi Zohar

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