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[-next] smack: Remove the redundant lsm_inode_alloc

Message ID 20220610092307.30311-1-xiujianfeng@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State Handled Elsewhere
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Series [-next] smack: Remove the redundant lsm_inode_alloc | expand

Commit Message

Xiu Jianfeng June 10, 2022, 9:23 a.m. UTC
It's not possible for inode->i_security to be NULL here because every
inode will call inode_init_always and then lsm_inode_alloc to alloc
memory for inode->security, this is what LSM infrastructure management
do, so remove this redundant code.

Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>
---
 security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

Comments

Casey Schaufler June 10, 2022, 8:11 p.m. UTC | #1
On 6/10/2022 2:23 AM, Xiu Jianfeng wrote:
> It's not possible for inode->i_security to be NULL here because every
> inode will call inode_init_always and then lsm_inode_alloc to alloc
> memory for inode->security, this is what LSM infrastructure management
> do, so remove this redundant code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>

I've taken this for smack-next. Thank you.

> ---
>   security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 7 -------
>   1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
> index 6207762dbdb1..001831458fa2 100644
> --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
> +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
> @@ -766,13 +766,6 @@ static int smack_set_mnt_opts(struct super_block *sb,
>   	if (sp->smk_flags & SMK_SB_INITIALIZED)
>   		return 0;
>   
> -	if (inode->i_security == NULL) {
> -		int rc = lsm_inode_alloc(inode);
> -
> -		if (rc)
> -			return rc;
> -	}
> -
>   	if (!smack_privileged(CAP_MAC_ADMIN)) {
>   		/*
>   		 * Unprivileged mounts don't get to specify Smack values.
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diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
index 6207762dbdb1..001831458fa2 100644
--- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
+++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
@@ -766,13 +766,6 @@  static int smack_set_mnt_opts(struct super_block *sb,
 	if (sp->smk_flags & SMK_SB_INITIALIZED)
 		return 0;
 
-	if (inode->i_security == NULL) {
-		int rc = lsm_inode_alloc(inode);
-
-		if (rc)
-			return rc;
-	}
-
 	if (!smack_privileged(CAP_MAC_ADMIN)) {
 		/*
 		 * Unprivileged mounts don't get to specify Smack values.