Re: [PATCH v2] ima: export the measurement list when needed

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On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 3:03 AM Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > This is a pretty important new feature.
> > A lot of people can't use IMA because of the memory issue.
> > Also, I really think we need to let administrators choose the tradeoffs
> > of keeping the list in memory, on a local file, or only on the
> > attestation server, as best fits their use cases.
>
> Dave, I understand that some use cases require the ability of
> truncating the measurement list.  We're discussing how to truncate the
> measurement list.  For example, in addition to the existing securityfs
> binary_runtime_measurements file, we could define a new securityfs
> file indicating the number of records to delete.

I don't have strong opinions either way, just let me know how to adapt
the patch and we will get it done asap. I'd prefer a solution where
the kernel can initiate the flush, but if not then not.

Thanks everyone for all the help.


--
Janne



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