Re: [PATCH] ima: Fix undefined arch_ima_get_secureboot() and co

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Tue Dec 14 2021 - 10:31:37 EST


Hi Takashi,

On Mon, 2021-12-13 at 17:11 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Currently arch_ima_get_secureboot() and arch_get_ima_policy() are
> defined only when CONFIG_IMA is set, and this makes the code calling
> those functions without CONFIG_IMA failing. Although there is no such
> in-tree users, but the out-of-tree users already hit it.
>
> Move the declaration and the dummy definition of those functions
> outside ifdef-CONFIG_IMA block for fixing the undefined symbols.
>
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>

Before lockdown was upstreamed, we made sure that IMA and lockdown
could co-exist. This patch makes the stub functions available even
when IMA is not configured. Do the remaining downstream patches
require IMA to be disabled or can IMA co-exist?

thanks,

Mimi