Re: [PATCH 8/n] selinux: avoid memory overhead of matchpathcon

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2010/12/1 Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> * src/security/security_selinux.c
> (SELinuxRestoreSecurityFileLabel): Use selabel_lookup instead of
> matchpathcon.
> Suggested by Daniel Walsh.
> ---
>
> Makes the huge difference that I originally thought I'd get with patch
> 5/n earlier in the series. ÂBeforehand, when trying to start a single
> kvm guest then stopping libvirtd, valgrind reports:
>
> ==5584== LEAK SUMMARY:
> ==5584== Â Âdefinitely lost: 372 bytes in 13 blocks
> ==5584== Â Âindirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
> ==5584== Â Â Âpossibly lost: 349 bytes in 18 blocks
>
> after, it reports:
>
> ==7803== LEAK SUMMARY:
> ==7803== Â Âdefinitely lost: 412 bytes in 14 blocks
> ==7803== Â Âindirectly lost: 839,126 bytes in 11,265 blocks
> ==7803== Â Â Âpossibly lost: 349 bytes in 18 blocks
>
> Obviously, I still haven't plugged everything, but this works
> around the fact that libselinux used __thread incorrectly for
> matchpathcon() caching.
>
> Âsrc/security/security_selinux.c | Â 12 ++++++++----
> Â1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>

ACK.

Matthias

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