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                         IMA Template Management Mechanism
  
  
  ==== INTRODUCTION ====
  
  The original 'ima' template is fixed length, containing the filedata hash
  and pathname. The filedata hash is limited to 20 bytes (md5/sha1).
  The pathname is a null terminated string, limited to 255 characters.
  To overcome these limitations and to add additional file metadata, it is
  necessary to extend the current version of IMA by defining additional
  templates. For example, information that could be possibly reported are
  the inode UID/GID or the LSM labels either of the inode and of the process
  that is accessing it.
  
  However, the main problem to introduce this feature is that, each time
  a new template is defined, the functions that generate and display
  the measurements list would include the code for handling a new format
  and, thus, would significantly grow over the time.
  
  The proposed solution solves this problem by separating the template
  management from the remaining IMA code. The core of this solution is the
  definition of two new data structures: a template descriptor, to determine
  which information should be included in the measurement list; a template
  field, to generate and display data of a given type.
  
  Managing templates with these structures is very simple. To support
  a new data type, developers define the field identifier and implement
  two functions, init() and show(), respectively to generate and display
  measurement entries. Defining a new template descriptor requires
  specifying the template format, a string of field identifiers separated
  by the '|' character. While in the current implementation it is possible
  to define new template descriptors only by adding their definition in the
  template specific code (ima_template.c), in a future version it will be
  possible to register a new template on a running kernel by supplying to IMA
  the desired format string. In this version, IMA initializes at boot time
  all defined template descriptors by translating the format into an array
  of template fields structures taken from the set of the supported ones.
  
  After the initialization step, IMA will call ima_alloc_init_template()
  (new function defined within the patches for the new template management
  mechanism) to generate a new measurement entry by using the template
  descriptor chosen through the kernel configuration or through the newly
  introduced 'ima_template=' kernel command line parameter. It is during this
  phase that the advantages of the new architecture are clearly shown:
  the latter function will not contain specific code to handle a given template
  but, instead, it simply calls the init() method of the template fields
  associated to the chosen template descriptor and store the result (pointer
  to allocated data and data length) in the measurement entry structure.
  
  The same mechanism is employed to display measurements entries.
  The functions ima[_ascii]_measurements_show() retrieve, for each entry,
  the template descriptor used to produce that entry and call the show()
  method for each item of the array of template fields structures.
  
  
  
  ==== SUPPORTED TEMPLATE FIELDS AND DESCRIPTORS ====
  
  In the following, there is the list of supported template fields
  ('<identifier>': description), that can be used to define new template
  descriptors by adding their identifier to the format string
  (support for more data types will be added later):
  
   - 'd': the digest of the event (i.e. the digest of a measured file),
          calculated with the SHA1 or MD5 hash algorithm;
   - 'n': the name of the event (i.e. the file name), with size up to 255 bytes;
   - 'd-ng': the digest of the event, calculated with an arbitrary hash
             algorithm (field format: [<hash algo>:]digest, where the digest
             prefix is shown only if the hash algorithm is not SHA1 or MD5);
   - 'n-ng': the name of the event, without size limitations;
   - 'sig': the file signature.
  
  
  Below, there is the list of defined template descriptors:
   - "ima": its format is 'd|n';
   - "ima-ng" (default): its format is 'd-ng|n-ng';
   - "ima-sig": its format is 'd-ng|n-ng|sig'.
  
  
  
  ==== USE ====
  
  To specify the template descriptor to be used to generate measurement entries,
  currently the following methods are supported:
  
   - select a template descriptor among those supported in the kernel
     configuration ('ima-ng' is the default choice);
   - specify a template descriptor name from the kernel command line through
     the 'ima_template=' parameter.