Re: ima: use of radix tree cache indexing == massive waste ofmemory?

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Oct 18 2010 - 02:36:16 EST


On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:25:30 -0400 Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH] ima: allow it to be completely disabled (and default to off)

Good enough as a short-term thing I guess.

But the memory consumption which David described is plain nuttiness and
needs to be fixed, presumably by using a more appropriate data structure
for lookups.

However unless I missed it, nobody has yet stated that they intend to
fix this?
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