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From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>,
	pakki001@umn.edu, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] security: inode: fix a missing check for securityfs_create_file
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:00:43 +1000 (AEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1904110800260.5714@namei.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190410180156.GZ2217@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, Al Viro wrote:

> Rather bad way to do it - generally, register_filesystem() should be
> the last thing done by initialization.  Any modular code that
> does unregister_filesystem() on failure exit is flat-out broken;
> here it's not instantly FUBAR, but it's a bloody bad example.
> 
> What's more, why not let simple_fill_super() do it?  Just
> static int fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
> {
>         static const struct tree_descr files[] = {
> #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
> 		{"lsm", &lsm_ops, 0444},
> #endif
> 		{""}
> 	};
> 
> and to hell with that call of securityfs_create_file() and all its
> failure handling...

Thanks for the review.  Reverted.

-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>


      reply	other threads:[~2019-04-10 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-15  4:09 Kangjie Lu
2019-03-15 19:08 ` James Morris
2019-03-15 21:00   ` Kangjie Lu
2019-03-15 22:34     ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-04-10 17:34     ` James Morris
2019-04-10 18:01       ` Al Viro
2019-04-10 22:00         ` James Morris [this message]

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