Re: [Linux-ima-user] Some build problem of IMA

[Mimi Z. <zo...@li...>]

On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 21:56 +0500, Shaz wrote:
> 
>         
>         There were a lot of IMA changes last December posted by Eric.
>         Parts were
>         picked up, some were entirely left out, and others were
>         incorrectly
>         modified, leaving IMA totally broken for quite a while.  It
>         only got
>         sorted out right before 2.6.33 was released.
>         
>         Commit 6593c8f77db7 removed IMA_IINT_DUMP_STACK, which is
>         causing the
>         initial problems above.
> 
> I am using 2.6.29-rc3 so should I back port the IMA code from the
> mentioned commit to it? Can you please let me know how to extract the
> patches because I suppose there will be others also contributing to
> IMA.
> 
> Thanks Mimi.

Hi Shaz,

Last time around, there were only a few IMA patches that could easily be
pulled using git log.  This time around it wouldn't be so easy, as there
are vfs changes as well.  There aren't all that many IMA bug fixes to
begin with, and those that do exist were back ported to stable.

The only exception is if you're using openAFS, which will emit imbalance
messages.  If that is a problem for you, we could back port a patch that
limits these messages.

Mimi