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