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.) -- thanks, Mimi
