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

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On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 10:04:53AM +0300, Janne Karhunen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 12:39 AM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 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?
> 
> If Android is the load, this makes it crash safe 99% of the time and
> that is considerably better than 0% of the time.
> 

Who will use it if it isn't 100% safe?

- Eric




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