[ Upstream commit 30d68cb0c37ebe2dc63aa1d46a28b9163e61caa2 ] On IMA policy update, if a measure rule exists in the policy, IMA_MEASURE is set for ima_policy_flags which makes the violation_check variable always true. Coupled with a no-action on MAY_READ for a FILE_CHECK call, we're always taking the inode_lock(). This becomes a performance problem for extremely heavy read-only workloads. Therefore, prevent this only in the case there's no action to be taken. Signed-off-by: Frederick Lawler <fred@cloudflare.com> Acked-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>