From 41670a5900a8866b8cab52ab5936b5e9ef06fe91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2025 01:54:52 -0400 Subject: get rid of audit_reusename() Originally we tried to avoid multiple insertions into audit names array during retry loop by a cute hack - memorize the userland pointer and if there already is a match, just grab an extra reference to it. Cute as it had been, it had problems - two identical pointers had audit aux entries merged, two identical strings did not. Having different behaviour for syscalls that differ only by addresses of otherwise identical string arguments is obviously wrong - if nothing else, compiler can decide to merge identical string literals. Besides, this hack does nothing for non-audited processes - they get a fresh copy for retry. It's not time-critical, but having behaviour subtly differ that way is bogus. These days we have very few places that import filename more than once (9 functions total) and it's easy to massage them so we get rid of all re-imports. With that done, we don't need audit_reusename() anymore. There's no need to memorize userland pointer either. Acked-by: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- kernel/auditsc.c | 23 ----------------------- 1 file changed, 23 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c index dd0563a8e0be..67d8da927381 100644 --- a/kernel/auditsc.c +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c @@ -2169,29 +2169,6 @@ static struct audit_names *audit_alloc_name(struct audit_context *context, return aname; } -/** - * __audit_reusename - fill out filename with info from existing entry - * @uptr: userland ptr to pathname - * - * Search the audit_names list for the current audit context. If there is an - * existing entry with a matching "uptr" then return the filename - * associated with that audit_name. If not, return NULL. - */ -struct filename * -__audit_reusename(const __user char *uptr) -{ - struct audit_context *context = audit_context(); - struct audit_names *n; - - list_for_each_entry(n, &context->names_list, list) { - if (!n->name) - continue; - if (n->name->uptr == uptr) - return refname(n->name); - } - return NULL; -} - /** * __audit_getname - add a name to the list * @name: name to add -- cgit v1.2.3