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ima: process_measurement() needlessly takes inode_lock() on MAY_READ
authorFrederick Lawler <fred@cloudflare.com>
Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:09:11 +0000 (11:09 -0500)
committerRoberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:39:32 +0000 (16:39 +0200)
commit30d68cb0c37ebe2dc63aa1d46a28b9163e61caa2
tree2d530ebf3a0d053e068146932c307007fa25f188
parent9c32cda43eb78f78c73aee4aa344b777714e259b
ima: process_measurement() needlessly takes inode_lock() on MAY_READ

On IMA policy update, if a measure rule exists in the policy,
IMA_MEASURE is set for ima_policy_flags which makes the violation_check
variable always true. Coupled with a no-action on MAY_READ for a
FILE_CHECK call, we're always taking the inode_lock().

This becomes a performance problem for extremely heavy read-only workloads.
Therefore, prevent this only in the case there's no action to be taken.

Signed-off-by: Frederick Lawler <fred@cloudflare.com>
Acked-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c