From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	patches@lists.linux.dev,
	Ryan Lee <ryan.lee@canonical.com>,
	John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.19 698/781] apparmor: account for in_atomic removal in common_file_perm
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:23:27 -0800
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6.19-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Ryan Lee <ryan.lee@canonical.com>

[ Upstream commit 9b829c0aa96e9385b1e9a308d3eb054b95fbeda2 ]

If we are not in an atomic context in common_file_perm, then we don't have
to use the atomic versions, resulting in improved performance outside of
atomic contexts.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Lee <ryan.lee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Stable-dep-of: 4a134723f9f1 ("apparmor: move check for aa_null file to cover all cases")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 security/apparmor/lsm.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/apparmor/lsm.c b/security/apparmor/lsm.c
index e59e9bc7250bf..f47d60d8c40a2 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/lsm.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/lsm.c
@@ -524,15 +524,14 @@ static int common_file_perm(const char *op, struct file *file, u32 mask)
 {
 	struct aa_label *label;
 	int error = 0;
-	bool needput;
 
 	/* don't reaudit files closed during inheritance */
 	if (unlikely(file->f_path.dentry == aa_null.dentry))
 		return -EACCES;
 
-	label = __begin_current_label_crit_section(&needput);
+	label = begin_current_label_crit_section();
 	error = aa_file_perm(op, current_cred(), label, file, mask, false);
-	__end_current_label_crit_section(label, needput);
+	end_current_label_crit_section(label);
 
 	return error;
 }
-- 
2.51.0