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Agent consuming excessive CPU during / after IMA measurement

See original GitHub issue

Environment

OS / version: Fedora 31
Processor architecture: VM
TPM Manufacturer: Emulator
Keylime version: master

Description

Some CPU spikes have been observed up to 100%

This continues even after changing the agents operation status to deleted. Only way to stop is to ctrl break the agent.

Steps to reproduce problem

Provision with the following as an example: keylime_tenant -t 127.0.0.1 -v 127.0.0.1 --cert /root/democa --exclude /root/excludes.txt --whitelist /root/whitelist.txt --include /root/payload -c add

Relevant logs

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:11 (8 by maintainers)

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mdroccocommented, Apr 10, 2020

Is that the whitelist for IMA verification? If yes, this is surprising to me, as I thought (based only on log interpretation) that the measurement/IMA matching was performed by the verifier and the agents simply sent the measurements. Did I get it wrong?

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stale[bot]commented, Jul 12, 2020

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed after 7 days if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

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