Re: [PATCH] Yama: remove locking from delete path

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Nov 19 2012 - 22:01:40 EST


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:23 PM, James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Kees Cook wrote:
>
>> Instead of locking the list during a delete, mark entries as invalid
>> and trigger a workqueue to clean them up. This lets us easily handle
>> task_free from interrupt context.
>>
>> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This doesn't apply cleanly to my -next branch.

Did you already apply this from last week?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/13/808

> Kees: can you think about using git to push changes to me for Yama?

If this pace of changes keeps up, sure thing.

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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