Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:21:53 +1000 (AEST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] integrity: replace call to integrity_read_file with kernel version |
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 06:21:28AM +1000, James Morris wrote: > > So, to be clear, this patch solves the XFS deadlock using a different > > approach (to the now reverted integrity_read approach), which Christoph > > also says is more correct generally. Correct? > > No. It is in addition to the previous patches - the patches were > correct for the IMA interaction with the I/O path. It just turns > out that the function was also reused for reading certificates > at initialization time, for which that change was incorrect. > > If this series is applied first the integrity_read code is not > used for that path any more.
Ok. Sorry I hadn't looked at the code in detail at this stage during the conference and wanting to just revert back to something that Linus can safely pull before the merge window closes.
-- James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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