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Commit 5b3014b9 authored by Lakshmi Ramasubramanian's avatar Lakshmi Ramasubramanian Committed by Mimi Zohar
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IMA: Defined delayed workqueue to free the queued keys



Keys queued for measurement should be freed if a custom IMA policy
was not loaded.  Otherwise, the keys will remain queued forever
consuming kernel memory.

This patch defines a delayed workqueue to handle the above scenario.
The workqueue handler is setup to execute 5 minutes after IMA
initialization is completed.

If a custom IMA policy is loaded before the workqueue handler is
scheduled to execute, the workqueue task is cancelled and any queued keys
are processed for measurement.  But if a custom policy was not loaded then
the queued keys are just freed when the delayed workqueue handler is run.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@linux.microsoft.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com> # sleeping
function called from invalid context
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> # redefinition of
ima_init_key_queue() function.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
parent 450d0fd5
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