linux/security
Dmitry Kasatkin 2c50b96482 ima: remove unnecessary i_mutex locking from ima_rdwr_violation_check()
Before 2.6.39 inode->i_readcount was maintained by IMA. It was not atomic
and protected using spinlock. For 2.6.39, i_readcount was converted to
atomic and maintaining was moved VFS layer. Spinlock for some unclear
reason was replaced by i_mutex.

After analyzing the code, we came to conclusion that i_mutex locking is
unnecessary, especially when an IMA policy has not been defined.

This patch removes i_mutex locking from ima_rdwr_violation_check().

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-17 09:35:09 -04:00
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apparmor nick kvfree() from apparmor 2014-05-06 14:02:53 -04:00
integrity ima: remove unnecessary i_mutex locking from ima_rdwr_violation_check() 2014-07-17 09:35:09 -04:00
keys Merge branch 'serge-next-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux-security 2014-06-10 10:05:36 -07:00
selinux Merge branch 'stable-3.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/selinux into next 2014-07-17 03:05:51 +10:00
smack Merge branch 'smack-for-3.16' of git://git.gitorious.org/smack-next/kernel into next 2014-05-20 14:50:09 +10:00
tomoyo get rid of pointless checks for NULL ->i_op 2014-04-01 23:19:16 -04:00
yama yama: Better permission check for ptraceme 2013-03-26 13:17:58 -07:00
capability.c Merge tag 'keys-20140314' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs into next 2014-04-14 11:42:49 +10:00
commoncap.c capabilities: allow nice if we are privileged 2013-08-30 23:44:09 -07:00
device_cgroup.c device_cgroup: use css_has_online_children() instead of has_children() 2014-05-16 13:22:52 -04:00
inode.c securityfs: fix object creation races 2012-01-10 10:20:35 -05:00
Kconfig security: select correct default LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR on arm on arm64 2014-02-05 14:59:14 +00:00
lsm_audit.c audit: anchor all pid references in the initial pid namespace 2014-03-20 10:11:55 -04:00
Makefile security: cleanup Makefiles to use standard syntax for specifying sub-directories 2014-02-17 11:08:04 +11:00
min_addr.c mmap_min_addr check CAP_SYS_RAWIO only for write 2010-04-23 08:56:31 +10:00
security.c Merge branch 'serge-next-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux-security 2014-06-10 10:05:36 -07:00