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From: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 03/10] apparmor: use task path helpers
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:59:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100817225941.GM5556@shell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100817184120.622515715@kernel.dk>

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 04:37:32AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> apparmor: use task path helpers
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
> 
> ---
> BTW, argh! dcache_lock! Why does everything have to invent its own reverse
> path lookup crud and hide it away in its own code? Also, admire the rest of
> this beautiful function.
> 
> ---
>  security/apparmor/path.c |    9 ++-------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/security/apparmor/path.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/security/apparmor/path.c	2010-08-18 04:04:02.000000000 +1000
> +++ linux-2.6/security/apparmor/path.c	2010-08-18 04:04:29.000000000 +1000
> @@ -62,19 +62,14 @@ static int d_namespace_path(struct path
>  	int deleted, connected;
>  	int error = 0;
>  
> -	/* Get the root we want to resolve too */
> +	/* Get the root we want to resolve too, released below */
>  	if (flags & PATH_CHROOT_REL) {
>  		/* resolve paths relative to chroot */
> -		read_lock(&current->fs->lock);
> -		root = current->fs->root;
> -		/* released below */
> -		path_get(&root);
> -		read_unlock(&current->fs->lock);
> +		get_fs_root(current->fs, &root);
>  	} else {
>  		/* resolve paths relative to namespace */
>  		root.mnt = current->nsproxy->mnt_ns->root;
>  		root.dentry = root.mnt->mnt_root;
> -		/* released below */
>  		path_get(&root);
>  	}

Gosh, maybe this VFS stuff isn't as hard as I thought!  This one's
easy to review too. :)

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>

-VAL


  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-17 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-17 18:37 [patch 00/10] first set of vfs scale patches Nick Piggin
2010-08-17 18:37 ` [patch 01/10] fs: fix do_lookup false negative Nick Piggin
2010-08-17 22:45   ` Valerie Aurora
2010-08-17 23:04   ` Sage Weil
2010-08-18 13:41   ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-17 18:37 ` [patch 02/10] fs: dentry allocation consolidation Nick Piggin
2010-08-17 22:45   ` Valerie Aurora
2010-08-17 18:37 ` [patch 03/10] apparmor: use task path helpers Nick Piggin
2010-08-17 22:59   ` Valerie Aurora [this message]
2010-08-17 18:37 ` [patch 04/10] fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock Nick Piggin
2010-08-17 23:14   ` Valerie Aurora
2010-08-20 10:05     ` Nick Piggin
2010-08-17 18:37 ` [patch 05/10] fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash Nick Piggin
2010-08-18 13:57   ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-18 21:13     ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-18 19:34   ` Valerie Aurora
2010-08-17 18:37 ` [patch 06/10] fs: cleanup files_lock locking Nick Piggin
2010-08-18 19:46   ` Valerie Aurora
2010-08-17 18:37 ` [patch 07/10] tty: fix fu_list abuse Nick Piggin
2010-08-17 18:37 ` [patch 08/10] lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks Nick Piggin
2010-08-17 18:37 ` [patch 09/10] fs: scale files_lock Nick Piggin
2010-08-17 18:37 ` [patch 10/10] fs: brlock vfsmount_lock Nick Piggin
2010-08-18 14:05   ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-20 10:09     ` Nick Piggin
2010-08-17 21:14 ` [patch 00/10] first set of vfs scale patches Al Viro

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