Re: [Linux-ima-user] IMA hash update

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Hi Patrick,

On Thu, 2016-02-18 at 12:32 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-02-18 at 15:41 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-02-18 at 07:32 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > If anyone has suggestions for debugging the long delay until data gets
> > flushed, then I am open for suggestions. I'm still seeing that even with
> > "data=journal", it's only that the effect is less drastic.
> 
> Currently, S_SYNC isn't set.  Setting it looks like it would resolve the
> problem.
> fs/ext4/xattr.c:
>                 if (IS_SYNC(inode))
>                         ext4_handle_sync(handle);

Changing  'if (IS_SYNC(inode))" to  "if (IS_SYNC(inode)  ||
IS_IMA(inode))" in both places should fix the problem.

Mimi