Re: [PATCH v10 26/27] ima: Limit number of policy rules in non-init_ima_ns

From: Stefan Berger
Date: Wed Feb 23 2022 - 16:07:14 EST



On 2/23/22 15:59, Mimi Zohar wrote:
On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 15:45 -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:

avoid huge kernel memory consumption in the case that a cgroup limit for
memory was not set up.
Ok, that is the motivation for the this patch.

Any user can create several user namespaces and with that several IMA namespaces and now we want to limit the number of rules inside an IMA namespace to limit the amount of kernel memory the policy rules are consuming. It isn't necessarily  related to cgroups but a hard limit on the number of rules to avoid wasted of memory.