[PATCH] apparmor: use per file locks for transactional queries

From: Hamza Mahfooz
Date: Fri Jul 30 2021 - 01:25:17 EST


As made mention of in commit 1dea3b41e84c5 ("apparmor: speed up
transactional queries"), a single lock is currently used to synchronize
transactional queries. We can, use the lock allocated for each file by
VFS instead.

Signed-off-by: Hamza Mahfooz <someguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
index 2ee3b3d29f10..c0b626a271a0 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
@@ -812,8 +812,6 @@ struct multi_transaction {
};

#define MULTI_TRANSACTION_LIMIT (PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(struct multi_transaction))
-/* TODO: replace with per file lock */
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(multi_transaction_lock);

static void multi_transaction_kref(struct kref *kref)
{
@@ -847,10 +845,10 @@ static void multi_transaction_set(struct file *file,
AA_BUG(n > MULTI_TRANSACTION_LIMIT);

new->size = n;
- spin_lock(&multi_transaction_lock);
+ spin_lock(&file->f_lock);
old = (struct multi_transaction *) file->private_data;
file->private_data = new;
- spin_unlock(&multi_transaction_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&file->f_lock);
put_multi_transaction(old);
}

@@ -879,9 +877,10 @@ static ssize_t multi_transaction_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
struct multi_transaction *t;
ssize_t ret;

- spin_lock(&multi_transaction_lock);
+ spin_lock(&file->f_lock);
t = get_multi_transaction(file->private_data);
- spin_unlock(&multi_transaction_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&file->f_lock);
+
if (!t)
return 0;

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2.32.0