[PULL] Yama update (3.8)

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Nov 20 2012 - 14:55:01 EST


Hi James,

Please pull these Yama changes for 3.8. Thanks!

-Kees,

The following changes since commit b5666502700855a1eb1a15482005b22478b9460e:

drivers/char/tpm: remove tasklet and cleanup (2012-11-01 15:23:14 -0500)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git tags/yama-3.8

for you to fetch changes up to 235e752789eb65a81477bb82845323dfcbf93012:

Yama: remove locking from delete path (2012-11-20 10:32:08 -0800)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Yama features for 3.8:
- replacing locks with RCU
- replacing in-place delete with workqueue

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Kees Cook (2):
Yama: add RCU to drop read locking
Yama: remove locking from delete path

security/yama/yama_lsm.c | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

--
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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