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| author | Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com> | 2014-06-13 17:55:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2014-07-17 15:35:09 +0200 |
| commit | 2c50b964823ebb7f0a098878c399ce859cd38e9e (patch) | |
| tree | 19c98e19c5059c5c9fbf8d33960df729354395b3 /security | |
| parent | Merge branch 'stable-3.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/selinux i... (diff) | |
| download | linux-2c50b964823ebb7f0a098878c399ce859cd38e9e.tar.xz linux-2c50b964823ebb7f0a098878c399ce859cd38e9e.zip | |
ima: remove unnecessary i_mutex locking from ima_rdwr_violation_check()
Before 2.6.39 inode->i_readcount was maintained by IMA. It was not atomic
and protected using spinlock. For 2.6.39, i_readcount was converted to
atomic and maintaining was moved VFS layer. Spinlock for some unclear
reason was replaced by i_mutex.
After analyzing the code, we came to conclusion that i_mutex locking is
unnecessary, especially when an IMA policy has not been defined.
This patch removes i_mutex locking from ima_rdwr_violation_check().
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c index 09baa335ebc7..cf1c3696c72e 100644 --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c @@ -88,8 +88,6 @@ static void ima_rdwr_violation_check(struct file *file) if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || !ima_initialized) return; - mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); /* file metadata: permissions, xattr */ - if (mode & FMODE_WRITE) { if (atomic_read(&inode->i_readcount) && IS_IMA(inode)) { struct integrity_iint_cache *iint; @@ -104,8 +102,6 @@ static void ima_rdwr_violation_check(struct file *file) send_writers = true; } - mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); - if (!send_tomtou && !send_writers) return; |