Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:50:43 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/8] Do not call 'ima_path_check()' for each path component |
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On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 02:02:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:05:33 -0700 > > Not only is that a supremely timing-critical path, but it's hopefully some > day going to be lockless for the common case, and ima can't do that. > > Plus the integrity code doesn't even care about non-regular files, > so it was always a total waste of time and effort.
Haha, nice one.
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