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| author | David P. Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov> | 2008-02-04 22:29:39 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-05 09:44:20 -0800 |
| commit | 42492594043d621a7910ff5877c3eb9202870b45 (patch) | |
| tree | 9188d112c019a189606847dc1d90ccc63c1bacf2 /security/security.c | |
| parent | 3729145821e3088a0c3c4183037fde356204bf97 (diff) | |
VFS/Security: Rework inode_getsecurity and callers to return resulting buffer
This patch modifies the interface to inode_getsecurity to have the function
return a buffer containing the security blob and its length via parameters
instead of relying on the calling function to give it an appropriately sized
buffer.
Security blobs obtained with this function should be freed using the
release_secctx LSM hook. This alleviates the problem of the caller having to
guess a length and preallocate a buffer for this function allowing it to be
used elsewhere for Labeled NFS.
The patch also removed the unused err parameter. The conversion is similar to
the one performed by Al Viro for the security_getprocattr hook.
Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/security.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/security.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c index ca475ca206e4..b6c57a6b2ff5 100644 --- a/security/security.c +++ b/security/security.c @@ -493,11 +493,11 @@ int security_inode_killpriv(struct dentry *dentry) return security_ops->inode_killpriv(dentry); } -int security_inode_getsecurity(const struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size, int err) +int security_inode_getsecurity(const struct inode *inode, const char *name, void **buffer, bool alloc) { if (unlikely(IS_PRIVATE(inode))) return 0; - return security_ops->inode_getsecurity(inode, name, buffer, size, err); + return security_ops->inode_getsecurity(inode, name, buffer, alloc); } int security_inode_setsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, const void *value, size_t size, int flags) |