Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753254AbZIHBuo (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:50:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753154AbZIHBuo (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:50:44 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:42321 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753147AbZIHBun (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:50:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:50:43 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Al Viro , Linux Filesystem Mailing List , Eric Paris , Mimi Zohar , James Morris Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Do not call 'ima_path_check()' for each path component Message-ID: <20090908015043.GA26051@infradead.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 702 Lines: 18 On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 02:02:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > From: Linus Torvalds > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:05:33 -0700 > > Not only is that a supremely timing-critical path, but it's hopefully some > day going to be lockless for the common case, and ima can't do that. > > Plus the integrity code doesn't even care about non-regular files, > so it was always a total waste of time and effort. Haha, nice one. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/