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Commit 9ade0cf4 authored by Eric Paris's avatar Eric Paris Committed by Linus Torvalds
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SELINUX: Make selinux cache VFS RCU walks safe



Now that the security modules can decide whether they support the
dcache RCU walk or not it's possible to make selinux a bit more
RCU friendly.  The SELinux AVC and security server access decision
code is RCU safe.  A specific piece of the LSM audit code may not
be RCU safe.

This patch makes the VFS RCU walk retry if it would hit the non RCU
safe chunk of code.  It will normally just work under RCU.  This is
done simply by passing the VFS RCU state as a flag down into the
avc_audit() code and returning ECHILD there if it would have an issue.

Based-on-patch-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 1879fd6a
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