On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 9:41 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The "issue" with IMA is that it uses security hooks to hook into the > VFS and then wants to read every file that gets opened on a real file > system to "measure" the contents vs a hash stashed away somewhere. Well, but that's easy enough to handle: if the open isn't a read open, then the old contents don't matter, so you shouldn't bother to measure the file. So this literally sounds like a "doctor, doctor, it hurts when I hit my head with a hammer" situation.. Linus