[PATCH] ima: add a knob ima= to make IMA be able to be disabled

[Coiby Xu]

On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 11:24:13AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
>On 05/21/25 at 08:54am, Mimi Zohar wrote:
>> On Fri, 2025-05-16 at 08:22 +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
>> > CC kexec list.
>> >
>> > On 05/16/25 at 07:39am, Baoquan He wrote:
>> > > Kdump kernel doesn't need IMA functionality, and enabling IMA will cost
>> > > extra memory. It would be very helpful to allow IMA to be disabled for
>> > > kdump kernel.
>
>Thanks a lot for careufl reviewing and great suggestions.
>
>>
>> The real question is not whether kdump needs "IMA", but whether not enabling
>> IMA in the kdump kernel could be abused.  The comments below don't address
>> that question but limit/emphasize, as much as possible, turning IMA off is
>> limited to the kdump kernel.
>
>Are you suggesting removing below paragraph from patch log because they
>are redundant? I can remove it in v2 if yes.

I understand Mimi's suggestion as the commit message should answer the
question why disabling IMA should be limited to kdump.

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Best regards,
Coiby