Re: [Linux-ima-user] manual measure error

[Reiner S. <sa...@us...>]

Rinaldo,

many thanks for making me aware of the problem in INSTALL. Bug reports are 
highly appreciated!

I will patch this Install after the long labor-day weekend when I have 
access to my development systems.

Greetings
Reiner
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From:
"rinberg\@libero\.it" <ri...@li...>
To:
"linux-ima-user" <lin...@li...>
Cc:
Reiner Sailer/Watson/IBM@IBMUS
Date:
08/31/2007 03:42 AM
Subject:
Re: [Linux-ima-user] manual measure error



> you forgot to specify the "&" in front of  "mr" in your measure request.
> 
> The 'write' takes a POINTER.
> 
> Please try again changing
> 
> write(fd_mreq, mr, sizeof(struct measure_request))
> 
> to 
> write(fd_mreq, &mr, sizeof(struct measure_request))
> 
> 
> Greetings
> Reiner


Thank you really for your quick answer, it saved me from a lot of worry as 
the deadline of the project is coming...

This **solved my issue** :) btw I had those code lines from the:

/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ima/INSTALL

-----------------------------------------------------------------
if (write(fd_mreq, mr, sizeof(struct measure_request))         -- (A)
        <error measuring>;                                      |
/* now use the file -- see NOTE below */                        |- 
protected
...                                                             |  section 
(see Note)
/* then close the file */                                       |
close(fd_config)                                               -- (B)
-----------------------------------------------------------------

So this is a sort of "bug report" within the documentation, nothing 
serious but I trusted them and didn't check the write.

Take care and thanks again,

 Rinaldo Bergamini