[PATCH 0/4] IMA: making i_readcount a first class inode citizen

[Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 14:41 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:

<snip>

> I believe that IBM is going to look into making i_readcount a first
> class citizen which can be used by both IMA and generic_setlease().
> Then people could say IMA had 0 per inode overhead   :)

This patchset separates the incrementing/decrementing of the i_readcount,
in the VFS layer, from other IMA functionality, by replacing the current
ima_counts_get() call with iget_readcount(). Its unclear whether this
call to increment i_readcount should be made earlier. 

The patch ordering is a bit redundant in order to leave removing the ifdef
around i_readcount until the last patch. The first three patches: defines 
iget/iput_readcount(), moves the IMA functionality in ima_counts_get() to
ima_file_check(), and removes the IMA imbalance code, simplifying IMA. The
last patch moves iget/iput_readcount() to the fs directory and removes the
ifdef around i_readcount, making i_readcount into a "first class inode citizen".

The generic_setlease code could then take advantage of i_readcount, assuming
it can take the spin_lock, by doing something like:

-		if ((arg == F_RDLCK) && (atomic_read(&inode->i_writecount) > 0))
+
+		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
+		if ((arg == F_RDLCK) && (atomic_read(&inode->i_writecount) > 0)){
+			spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 			goto out;
-		if ((arg == F_WRLCK)
-		    && ((atomic_read(&dentry->d_count) > 1)
-			|| (atomic_read(&inode->i_count) > 1)))
+		}
+		if ((arg == F_WRLCK) && (inode->i_readcount > 1)) {
+			spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 			goto out;
+		}
+		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 	}
 
Mimi

Mimi Zohar (4):
  IMA: define readcount functions
  IMA: maintain i_readcount in the VFS layer
  IMA: remove IMA imbalance checking
  IMA: making i_readcount a first class inode citizen

 fs/file_table.c                   |   23 +++++++-
 fs/inode.c                        |    3 +
 fs/open.c                         |    3 +-
 include/linux/fs.h                |    4 +-
 include/linux/ima.h               |    6 --
 security/integrity/ima/ima_iint.c |    5 --
 security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c |  125 ++++--------------------------------
 7 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 126 deletions(-)

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