Re: [PATCH] SELinux: 1/3 eliminate inode_security_set_security

From: James Morris
Date: Wed Aug 23 2006 - 16:02:37 EST


On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Eric Paris wrote:

> inode_security_set_sid is only called by security_inode_init_security,
> which is called when a new file is being created and needs to have its
> incore security state initialized and its security xattr set. This
> helper used to be called in other places in the past, but now only has
> the one. So this patch rolls inode_security_set_sid directly back into
> security_inode_init_security. There also is no need to hold the
> isec->sem while doing this, as the inode is not available to other
> threads at this point in time.
>
> This is being targeted for 2.6.19
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>


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