Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security

Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "Highlights:

   - TPM core and driver updates/fixes
   - IPv6 security labeling (CALIPSO)
   - Lots of Apparmor fixes
   - Seccomp: remove 2-phase API, close hole where ptrace can change
     syscall #"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (156 commits)
  apparmor: fix SECURITY_APPARMOR_HASH_DEFAULT parameter handling
  tpm: Add TPM 2.0 support to the Nuvoton i2c driver (NPCT6xx family)
  tpm: Factor out common startup code
  tpm: use devm_add_action_or_reset
  tpm2_i2c_nuvoton: add irq validity check
  tpm: read burstcount from TPM_STS in one 32-bit transaction
  tpm: fix byte-order for the value read by tpm2_get_tpm_pt
  tpm_tis_core: convert max timeouts from msec to jiffies
  apparmor: fix arg_size computation for when setprocattr is null terminated
  apparmor: fix oops, validate buffer size in apparmor_setprocattr()
  apparmor: do not expose kernel stack
  apparmor: fix module parameters can be changed after policy is locked
  apparmor: fix oops in profile_unpack() when policy_db is not present
  apparmor: don't check for vmalloc_addr if kvzalloc() failed
  apparmor: add missing id bounds check on dfa verification
  apparmor: allow SYS_CAP_RESOURCE to be sufficient to prlimit another task
  apparmor: use list_next_entry instead of list_entry_next
  apparmor: fix refcount race when finding a child profile
  apparmor: fix ref count leak when profile sha1 hash is read
  apparmor: check that xindex is in trans_table bounds
  ...

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/security/tomoyo/gc.c b/security/tomoyo/gc.c
index 986a6a756868..540bc29e1b5a 100644
--- a/security/tomoyo/gc.c
+++ b/security/tomoyo/gc.c
@@ -645,11 +645,6 @@ void tomoyo_notify_gc(struct tomoyo_io_buffer *head, const bool is_register)
 		}
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&tomoyo_io_buffer_list_lock);
-	if (is_write) {
-		struct task_struct *task = kthread_create(tomoyo_gc_thread,
-							  NULL,
-							  "GC for TOMOYO");
-		if (!IS_ERR(task))
-			wake_up_process(task);
-	}
+	if (is_write)
+		kthread_run(tomoyo_gc_thread, NULL, "GC for TOMOYO");
 }