Re: [PATCH 0/2] ima: policy search speedup

[Mimi Zohar]

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



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