On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Mickaël Salaün wrote:

> Improve comments and make get_inode_object() more readable.  The kfree()
> call is correct but we should mimimize as much as possible lock windows.
> 
> Cc: James Morris <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <[email protected]>


Reviewed-by: James Morris <[email protected]>

> ---
>  security/landlock/fs.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/landlock/fs.c b/security/landlock/fs.c
> index b67c821bb40b..33fc7ae17c7f 100644
> --- a/security/landlock/fs.c
> +++ b/security/landlock/fs.c
> @@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ static struct landlock_object *get_inode_object(struct 
> inode *const inode)
>                       return object;
>               }
>               /*
> -              * We're racing with release_inode(), the object is going away.
> -              * Wait for release_inode(), then retry.
> +              * We are racing with release_inode(), the object is going
> +              * away.  Wait for release_inode(), then retry.
>                */
>               spin_lock(&object->lock);
>               spin_unlock(&object->lock);
> @@ -107,21 +107,21 @@ static struct landlock_object *get_inode_object(struct 
> inode *const inode)
>                       lockdep_is_held(&inode->i_lock));
>       if (unlikely(object)) {
>               /* Someone else just created the object, bail out and retry. */
> -             kfree(new_object);
>               spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
> +             kfree(new_object);
>  
>               rcu_read_lock();
>               goto retry;
> -     } else {
> -             rcu_assign_pointer(inode_sec->object, new_object);
> -             /*
> -              * @inode will be released by hook_sb_delete() on its
> -              * superblock shutdown.
> -              */
> -             ihold(inode);
> -             spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
> -             return new_object;
>       }
> +
> +     rcu_assign_pointer(inode_sec->object, new_object);
> +     /*
> +      * @inode will be released by hook_sb_delete() on its superblock
> +      * shutdown.
> +      */
> +     ihold(inode);
> +     spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
> +     return new_object;
>  }
>  
>  /* All access rights which can be tied to files. */
> 

-- 
James Morris
<[email protected]>

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