From patchwork Wed Apr 21 16:19:20 2021 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Roberto Sassu X-Patchwork-Id: 12216447 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-16.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 576BCC43462 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:20:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20F326144D for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:20:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S244268AbhDUQUl (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2021 12:20:41 -0400 Received: from frasgout.his.huawei.com ([185.176.79.56]:2895 "EHLO frasgout.his.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S241179AbhDUQUi (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2021 12:20:38 -0400 Received: from fraeml714-chm.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.18.147.206]) by frasgout.his.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4FQQYl6JSsz68Bmv; Thu, 22 Apr 2021 00:12:27 +0800 (CST) Received: from roberto-ThinkStation-P620.huawei.com (10.204.62.217) by fraeml714-chm.china.huawei.com (10.206.15.33) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2176.2; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 18:19:58 +0200 From: Roberto Sassu To: , , , CC: , , , , , Roberto Sassu , , Jeff Mahoney , Tetsuo Handa Subject: [PATCH v2 1/6] xattr: Complete constify ->name member of "struct xattr" Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 18:19:20 +0200 Message-ID: <20210421161925.968825-2-roberto.sassu@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <20210421161925.968825-1-roberto.sassu@huawei.com> References: <20210421161925.968825-1-roberto.sassu@huawei.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [10.204.62.217] X-ClientProxiedBy: lhreml754-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.204) To fraeml714-chm.china.huawei.com (10.206.15.33) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: This patch completes commit 9548906b2bb7 ('xattr: Constify ->name member of "struct xattr"'). It fixes the documentation of the inode_init_security hook, by removing the xattr name from the objects that are expected to be allocated by LSMs (only the value is allocated). Also, it removes the kfree() of name and setting it to NULL in reiserfs_security_free(). Fixes: 9548906b2bb7 ('xattr: Constify ->name member of "struct xattr"') Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jeff Mahoney Cc: Tetsuo Handa Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu --- fs/reiserfs/xattr_security.c | 2 -- include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr_security.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr_security.c index 8965c8e5e172..bb2a0062e0e5 100644 --- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr_security.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr_security.c @@ -95,9 +95,7 @@ int reiserfs_security_write(struct reiserfs_transaction_handle *th, void reiserfs_security_free(struct reiserfs_security_handle *sec) { - kfree(sec->name); kfree(sec->value); - sec->name = NULL; sec->value = NULL; } diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h index fb7f3193753d..c5498f5174ce 100644 --- a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h +++ b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h @@ -219,8 +219,8 @@ * This hook is called by the fs code as part of the inode creation * transaction and provides for atomic labeling of the inode, unlike * the post_create/mkdir/... hooks called by the VFS. The hook function - * is expected to allocate the name and value via kmalloc, with the caller - * being responsible for calling kfree after using them. + * is expected to allocate the value via kmalloc, with the caller + * being responsible for calling kfree after using it. * If the security module does not use security attributes or does * not wish to put a security attribute on this particular inode, * then it should return -EOPNOTSUPP to skip this processing.