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SELinux: 2/3 change isec semaphore to a mutex

PATCH In review Eric Paris 2 participants 2 messages Aug 23, 2006 SELinux security module

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PATCH 1/1 SELinux: 2/3 change isec semaphore to a mutex

This patch converts the remaining isec->sem into a mutex. Very similar locking is provided as before only in the faster smaller mutex rather than a semaphore. An out_unlock path is introduced rather than the conditional unlocking found in the original code.

This is being targeted for 2.6.19

Signed-off-by Eric Paris <[email protected]>
Acked-by Stephen Smalley <[email protected]>
 security/selinux/hooks.c          |   30 ++++++++++++++----------------
 security/selinux/include/objsec.h |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
security/selinux/include/objsec.h renamed from security/selinux/include/objsec.h.patch2 +1 -1
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ struct inode_security_struct {
 	u32 sid;             /* SID of this object */
 	u16 sclass;       /* security class of this object */
 	unsigned char initialized;     /* initialization flag */
-	struct semaphore sem;
+	struct mutex lock;
 	unsigned char inherit;         /* inherit SID from parent entry */
 };
security/selinux/hooks.c renamed from security/selinux/hooks.c.patch2 +14 -16
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
 #include <linux/audit.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/selinux.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
 
 #include "avc.h"
 #include "objsec.h"

@@ -182,7 +183,7 @@ static int inode_alloc_security(struct i
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	memset(isec, 0, sizeof(*isec));
-	init_MUTEX(&isec->sem);
+	mutex_init(&isec->lock);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&isec->list);
 	isec->inode = inode;
 	isec->sid = SECINITSID_UNLABELED;

@@ -843,15 +844,13 @@ static int inode_doinit_with_dentry(stru
 	char *context = NULL;
 	unsigned len = 0;
 	int rc = 0;
-	int hold_sem = 0;
 
 	if (isec->initialized)
 		goto out;
 
-	down(&isec->sem);
-	hold_sem = 1;
+	mutex_lock(&isec->lock);
 	if (isec->initialized)
-		goto out;
+		goto out_unlock;
 
 	sbsec = inode->i_sb->s_security;
 	if (!sbsec->initialized) {

@@ -862,7 +861,7 @@ static int inode_doinit_with_dentry(stru
 		if (list_empty(&isec->list))
 			list_add(&isec->list, &sbsec->isec_head);
 		spin_unlock(&sbsec->isec_lock);
-		goto out;
+		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
 	switch (sbsec->behavior) {

@@ -885,7 +884,7 @@ static int inode_doinit_with_dentry(stru
 			printk(KERN_WARNING "%s:  no dentry for dev=%s "
 			       "ino=%ld\n", __FUNCTION__, inode->i_sb->s_id,
 			       inode->i_ino);
-			goto out;
+			goto out_unlock;
 		}
 
 		len = INITCONTEXTLEN;

@@ -893,7 +892,7 @@ static int inode_doinit_with_dentry(stru
 		if (!context) {
 			rc = -ENOMEM;
 			dput(dentry);
-			goto out;
+			goto out_unlock;
 		}
 		rc = inode->i_op->getxattr(dentry, XATTR_NAME_SELINUX,
 					   context, len);

@@ -903,7 +902,7 @@ static int inode_doinit_with_dentry(stru
 						   NULL, 0);
 			if (rc < 0) {
 				dput(dentry);
-				goto out;
+				goto out_unlock;
 			}
 			kfree(context);
 			len = rc;

@@ -911,7 +910,7 @@ static int inode_doinit_with_dentry(stru
 			if (!context) {
 				rc = -ENOMEM;
 				dput(dentry);
-				goto out;
+				goto out_unlock;
 			}
 			rc = inode->i_op->getxattr(dentry,
 						   XATTR_NAME_SELINUX,

@@ -924,7 +923,7 @@ static int inode_doinit_with_dentry(stru
 				       "%d for dev=%s ino=%ld\n", __FUNCTION__,
 				       -rc, inode->i_sb->s_id, inode->i_ino);
 				kfree(context);
-				goto out;
+				goto out_unlock;
 			}
 			/* Map ENODATA to the default file SID */
 			sid = sbsec->def_sid;

@@ -960,7 +959,7 @@ static int inode_doinit_with_dentry(stru
 					     isec->sclass,
 					     &sid);
 		if (rc)
-			goto out;
+			goto out_unlock;
 		isec->sid = sid;
 		break;
 	case SECURITY_FS_USE_MNTPOINT:

@@ -978,7 +977,7 @@ static int inode_doinit_with_dentry(stru
 							  isec->sclass,
 							  &sid);
 				if (rc)
-					goto out;
+					goto out_unlock;
 				isec->sid = sid;
 			}
 		}

@@ -987,12 +986,11 @@ static int inode_doinit_with_dentry(stru
 
 	isec->initialized = 1;
 
+out_unlock:
+	mutex_unlock(&isec->lock);
 out:
 	if (isec->sclass == SECCLASS_FILE)
 		isec->sclass = inode_mode_to_security_class(inode->i_mode);
-
-	if (hold_sem)
-		up(&isec->sem);
 	return rc;
 }
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Quoted 9 lines · Eric Paris

This patch converts the remaining isec->sem into a mutex. Very similar locking is provided as before only in the faster smaller mutex rather than a semaphore. An out_unlock path is introduced rather than the conditional unlocking found in the original code.

This is being targeted for 2.6.19

Signed-off-by Eric Paris <[email protected]>
Acked-by Stephen Smalley <[email protected]>
Acked-by James Morris <[email protected]>
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James Morris
<[email protected]>