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From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jean-Christophe Dubois <jcd@tribudubois.net>,
	David Safford <safford@watson.ibm.com>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>, Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] ima: remove ACPI dependency
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:26:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1256563579-11014-2-git-send-email-zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256563579-11014-1-git-send-email-zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Remove ACPI dependency on systems without a TPM enabled.

Reported-by: Jean-Christophe Dubois <jcd@tribudubois.net>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe Dubois <jcd@tribudubois.net>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
---
 security/integrity/ima/Kconfig |   17 +++++++----------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/Kconfig b/security/integrity/ima/Kconfig
index 3d7846d..3ca39e7 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/Kconfig
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/Kconfig
@@ -2,15 +2,12 @@
 #
 config IMA
 	bool "Integrity Measurement Architecture(IMA)"
-	depends on ACPI
-	depends on SECURITY
 	select SECURITYFS
 	select CRYPTO
 	select CRYPTO_HMAC
 	select CRYPTO_MD5
 	select CRYPTO_SHA1
-	select TCG_TPM
-	select TCG_TIS
+	select ACPI if TCG_TPM
 	help
 	  The Trusted Computing Group(TCG) runtime Integrity
 	  Measurement Architecture(IMA) maintains a list of hash
@@ -19,12 +16,12 @@ config IMA
 	  to change the contents of an important system file
 	  being measured, we can tell.
 
-	  If your system has a TPM chip, then IMA also maintains
-	  an aggregate integrity value over this list inside the
-	  TPM hardware, so that the TPM can prove to a third party
-	  whether or not critical system files have been modified.
-	  Read <http://www.usenix.org/events/sec04/tech/sailer.html>
-	  to learn more about IMA.
+	  If your system has a TPM chip, and it is enabled, then
+	  IMA also maintains an aggregate integrity value over
+	  this list inside the TPM hardware, so that the TPM can
+	  prove to a third party whether or not critical system
+	  files have been modified. To learn more about IMA, read
+	  <http://www.usenix.org/events/sec04/tech/sailer.html>
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
 config IMA_MEASURE_PCR_IDX
-- 
1.6.0.6


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-26 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-26 13:26 [PATCH] tpm add default function definitions Mimi Zohar
2009-10-26 13:26 ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2009-10-27 13:58   ` [PATCH] ima: remove ACPI dependency Eric Paris
2009-10-27 15:59     ` David Safford
2009-10-27 16:36       ` Eric Paris
2009-10-27 20:42         ` David Safford
2009-10-27 20:56           ` Eric Paris
2009-10-28 18:51             ` Rajiv Andrade
2009-10-26 14:06 ` [PATCH] tpm add default function definitions Rajiv Andrade
2009-10-27 14:08   ` Eric Paris
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-04 22:16 [PATCH] ima: remove ACPI dependency Mimi Zohar
2010-05-05  0:01 ` James Morris
2010-05-14 14:39 ` Mimi Zohar
2010-05-16 23:23   ` James Morris
2009-10-20 20:12 Mimi Zohar
2009-10-25 18:17 ` Jean-Christophe Dubois

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