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

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Oct 18 13:31:00 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 20:29 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:36:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:25:30 -0400 Kyle McMartin <kyle at mcmartin.ca> 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?
> 
> I think Eric said he is going to look at it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.

Am looking at it as well.

Mimi



More information about the kernel mailing list