From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:05:33 -0700 Not only is that a supremely timing-critical path, but it's hopefully some day going to be lockless for the common case, and ima can't do that. Plus the integrity code doesn't even care about non-regular files, so it was always a total waste of time and effort. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 3 --- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index f3c5b27..164aa15 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -856,9 +856,6 @@ static int __link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd) if (err == -EAGAIN) err = inode_permission(nd->path.dentry->d_inode, MAY_EXEC); - if (!err) - err = ima_path_check(&nd->path, MAY_EXEC, - IMA_COUNT_UPDATE); if (err) break; -- 1.6.4.1.209.g74b8 -- 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
