IMA: Defined delayed workqueue to free the queued keys
Keys queued for measurement should be freed if a custom IMA policy was not loaded. Otherwise, the keys will remain queued forever consuming kernel memory. This patch defines a delayed workqueue to handle the above scenario. The workqueue handler is setup to execute 5 minutes after IMA initialization is completed. If a custom IMA policy is loaded before the workqueue handler is scheduled to execute, the workqueue task is cancelled and any queued keys are processed for measurement. But if a custom policy was not loaded then the queued keys are just freed when the delayed workqueue handler is run. Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@linux.microsoft.com> Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com> # sleeping function called from invalid context Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> # redefinition of ima_init_key_queue() function. Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
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