Re: [PATCH 1/3] ima: keep the integrity state of open files up to date

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On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 12:45:38PM +0300, Janne Karhunen wrote:
> When a file is open for writing, kernel crash or power outage
> is guaranteed to corrupt the inode integrity state leading to
> file appraisal failure on the subsequent boot. Add some basic
> infrastructure to keep the integrity measurements up to date
> as the files are written to.
> 
> Core file operations (open, close, sync, msync, truncate) are
> now allowed to update the measurement immediately. In order
> to maintain sufficient write performance for writes, add a
> latency tunable delayed work workqueue for computing the
> measurements.
> 

This still doesn't make it crash-safe.  So why is it okay?

- Eric




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