From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Moore Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 4/4] audit: avoid double copying the audit_exe path string Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 21:56:12 -0400 Message-ID: <9338092.i1kyKho6FJ@sifl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Richard Guy Briggs Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sgrubb@redhat.com, eparis@redhat.com, pmoody@google.com List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 11:50:26 AM Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > Make this interface consistent with watch and filter key, avoiding the extra > string copy and simply consume the new string pointer. > > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs > --- > kernel/audit_exe.c | 8 ++++++-- > kernel/audit_fsnotify.c | 9 +-------- > kernel/auditfilter.c | 2 +- > 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) Merge this patch too, there is no reason why these needs to be its own patch. > diff --git a/kernel/audit_exe.c b/kernel/audit_exe.c > index 75ad4f2..09e4eb4 100644 > --- a/kernel/audit_exe.c > +++ b/kernel/audit_exe.c > @@ -27,11 +27,15 @@ int audit_dupe_exe(struct audit_krule *new, struct > audit_krule *old) struct audit_fsnotify_mark *audit_mark; > char *pathname; > > - pathname = audit_mark_path(old->exe); > + pathname = kstrdup(audit_mark_path(old->exe), GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!pathname) > + return -ENOMEM; > > audit_mark = audit_alloc_mark(new, pathname, strlen(pathname)); > - if (IS_ERR(audit_mark)) > + if (IS_ERR(audit_mark)) { > + kfree(pathname); > return PTR_ERR(audit_mark); > + } > new->exe = audit_mark; > > return 0; > diff --git a/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c b/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c > index a4e7b16..e57e08a 100644 > --- a/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c > +++ b/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c > @@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ struct audit_fsnotify_mark *audit_alloc_mark(struct > audit_krule *krule, char *pa struct dentry *dentry; > struct inode *inode; > unsigned long ino; > - char *local_pathname; > dev_t dev; > int ret; > > @@ -115,21 +114,15 @@ struct audit_fsnotify_mark *audit_alloc_mark(struct > audit_krule *krule, char *pa ino = dentry->d_inode->i_ino; > } > > - audit_mark = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); > - local_pathname = kstrdup(pathname, GFP_KERNEL); > - if (!local_pathname) > - goto out; > - > audit_mark = kzalloc(sizeof(*audit_mark), GFP_KERNEL); > if (unlikely(!audit_mark)) { > - kfree(local_pathname); > audit_mark = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); > goto out; > } > > fsnotify_init_mark(&audit_mark->mark, audit_fsnotify_free_mark); > audit_mark->mark.mask = AUDIT_FS_EVENTS; > - audit_mark->path = local_pathname; > + audit_mark->path = pathname; > audit_mark->ino = ino; > audit_mark->dev = dev; > audit_mark->rule = krule; > diff --git a/kernel/auditfilter.c b/kernel/auditfilter.c > index f65c97f..f46ed69 100644 > --- a/kernel/auditfilter.c > +++ b/kernel/auditfilter.c > @@ -559,8 +559,8 @@ static struct audit_entry *audit_data_to_entry(struct > audit_rule_data *data, entry->rule.buflen += f->val; > > audit_mark = audit_alloc_mark(&entry->rule, str, f->val); > - kfree(str); > if (IS_ERR(audit_mark)) { > + kfree(str); > err = PTR_ERR(audit_mark); > goto exit_free; > } -- paul moore security @ redhat