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From: Andrew Morton <akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devcgroup: skip superfluous checks when found the
	DEV_ALL elem
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:06:10 -0700
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To: Li Zefan <lizf-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
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On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:47:16 +0800
Li Zefan <lizf-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> While walking through the whitelist, if the DEV_ALL item is found,
> no more check is needed.
> 

It's unobvious whether this is a behavioural change, a bugfix or just a
speedup?

> 
> diff --git a/security/device_cgroup.c b/security/device_cgroup.c
> index 5fda7df..b8186ba 100644
> --- a/security/device_cgroup.c
> +++ b/security/device_cgroup.c
> @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ int devcgroup_inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
>  
>  	list_for_each_entry_rcu(wh, &dev_cgroup->whitelist, list) {
>  		if (wh->type & DEV_ALL)
> -			goto acc_check;
> +			goto found;
>  		if ((wh->type & DEV_BLOCK) && !S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode))
>  			continue;
>  		if ((wh->type & DEV_CHAR) && !S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode))
> @@ -499,11 +499,12 @@ int devcgroup_inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
>  			continue;
>  		if (wh->minor != ~0 && wh->minor != iminor(inode))
>  			continue;
> -acc_check:
> +
>  		if ((mask & MAY_WRITE) && !(wh->access & ACC_WRITE))
>  			continue;
>  		if ((mask & MAY_READ) && !(wh->access & ACC_READ))
>  			continue;
> +found:
>  		rcu_read_unlock();
>  		return 0;
>  	}
> @@ -527,7 +528,7 @@ int devcgroup_inode_mknod(int mode, dev_t dev)
>  
>  	list_for_each_entry_rcu(wh, &dev_cgroup->whitelist, list) {
>  		if (wh->type & DEV_ALL)
> -			goto acc_check;
> +			goto found;
>  		if ((wh->type & DEV_BLOCK) && !S_ISBLK(mode))
>  			continue;
>  		if ((wh->type & DEV_CHAR) && !S_ISCHR(mode))
> @@ -536,9 +537,10 @@ int devcgroup_inode_mknod(int mode, dev_t dev)
>  			continue;
>  		if (wh->minor != ~0 && wh->minor != MINOR(dev))
>  			continue;
> -acc_check:
> +
>  		if (!(wh->access & ACC_MKNOD))
>  			continue;
> +found:
>  		rcu_read_unlock();
>  		return 0;
>  	}