Re: [Linux-ima-user] IMA overwrites xattr even if it has got correct signature

[Dmitry R. <dmi...@li...>]

On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 08:33 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 15:29 +0200, Dmitry Rozhkov wrote:
> 
> > Thanks! I've just patched bsdtar to set xattrs after file closing
> > and
> > it fixes my problem.
> 
> It would be nice if this was fixed for others as well.  Are you
> planning
> on upstreaming the patch?
> 

I'v made this patch [1]. But I'm a bit reluctant to submit it as PR,
because with this patch IMA would spend CPU cycles for no good reason
on calculating useless hashes (which would be immediately overwritten
by tar).

[1] https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/911c6c0fb4870e20aa5
f88949408e4b349908036

BR,
Dima