Re: [Linux-ima-user] Endianness-dependent IMA field array hash

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

On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 10:13 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote: 
> On 6 May 2014 23:42, Mimi Zohar <zo...@li...> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 12:28 +0200, Andreas Steffen wrote:
> >> Hello Mimi,
> >>
> >> here is the datalen_to_hash patch.
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >>
> >> Andreas
> >>
> >> On 02.05.2014 14:52, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Andreas, did you want to post the patch?
> >
> > Thanks!  Would you mind adding a short patch description?  In the
> > future, please post the patch inline.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Mimi
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> binary_runtime_measurements also contains platform specific field
> length encoding...

To summarize the discussion, the kernel does not need to convert from
host to platform independent byte order.  A userspace app running on the
host system can do the conversion before sending the data.  The only
fields of concern are those included in the hash calculation.

thanks,

Mimi