On Thursday, January 22, 2015 11:09:42 AM Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > On 15/01/22, Paul Moore wrote: > > In order to ensure that filenames are not released before the audit > > subsystem is done with the strings there are a number of hacks built > > into the fs and audit subsystems around getname() and putname(). To > > say these hacks are "ugly" would be kind. > > > > This patch removes the filename hackery in favor of a more > > conventional reference count based approach. The diffstat below tells > > most of the story; lots of audit/fs specific code is replaced with a > > traditional reference count based approach that is easily understood, > > even by those not familiar with the audit and/or fs subsystems. > > > > CC: viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > CC: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Noted change of bumping refcnt before passing back pointer to struct > filename. > > Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for taking another look at the patch set. -- paul moore security @ redhat -- 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
