Re: [PATCH] ima: Calculate digest in ima_inode_hash() if not available

[Mimi Zohar]

Hi Roberto,

On Fri, 2022-02-11 at 11:48 +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> __ima_inode_hash() checks if a digest has been already calculated by
> looking for the integrity_iint_cache structure associated to the passed
> inode.
> 
> Users of ima_file_hash() and ima_inode_hash() (e.g. eBPF) might be
> interested in obtaining the information without having to setup an IMA
> policy so that the digest is always available at the time they call one of
> those functions.

Things obviously changed, but the original use case for this interface,
as I recall, was a quick way to determine if a file had been accessed
on the system.

-- 
thanks,

Mimi