On Thu Aug 3, 2023 at 4:22 AM EEST, Mimi Zohar wrote: > On Wed, 2023-08-02 at 06:58 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > > > From long description I see zero motivation to ack this change, except > > some heresay about IMA requiring it. Why does IMA need update_cnt and > > why this is not documented to the long description? > > The motivation is to detect whether the IMA measurement list has been > truncated, for whatever reason. A new IMA record should be defined > containing the "pcrCounter" value. (I have not had a chance to review > this patch set.) > > This new record would be a pre-req for both Tushar's "ima: measure > events between kexec load and execute" patch set and Sush's proposal to > trim the measurement list. (I haven't looked at it yet either.) Please describe the story in a bit more understandable form. In the commit messages it is not good to have some redundancy in patch sets. BR, Jarkko _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
