On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, David Howells wrote: > Remove the temporarily embedded task security record from task_struct. Instead > it is made to dangle from the task_struct::sec and task_struct::act_as pointers > with references counted for each. ... These patches are kind of huge. > +static int selinux_task_dup_security(struct task_security *sec) > +{ > + struct task_security_struct *tsec1, *tsec2; > + > + tsec1 = sec->security; > + > + tsec2 = kmemdup(tsec1, sizeof(*tsec1), GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!tsec2) > + return -ENOMEM; > + > + tsec2->osid = tsec1->osid; > + tsec2->sid = tsec1->sid; > + > + tsec2->exec_sid = tsec1->exec_sid; > + tsec2->create_sid = tsec1->create_sid; > + tsec2->keycreate_sid = tsec1->keycreate_sid; > + tsec2->sockcreate_sid = tsec1->sockcreate_sid; > + tsec2->ptrace_sid = SECINITSID_UNLABELED; > + sec->security = tsec2; > + > + return 0; > } Why manually copy these fields after a kmemdup? What about the task backpointer? (i.e. tsec2->task) -- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html