On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 19:32 -0500, Tyler Hicks wrote: > The args_p member is a simple string that is allocated by > ima_rule_init(). Shallow copy it like other non-LSM references in > ima_rule_entry structs. > > There are no longer any necessary error path cleanups to do in > ima_lsm_copy_rule() so reference ownership from entry to nentry becomes > easier. > > Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 13 ++----------- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c > index e33347148aa9..e9c7d318fdd4 100644 > --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c > +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c > @@ -306,10 +306,8 @@ static struct ima_rule_entry *ima_lsm_copy_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry) > continue; > > nentry->lsm[i].type = entry->lsm[i].type; > - nentry->lsm[i].args_p = kstrdup(entry->lsm[i].args_p, > - GFP_KERNEL); > - if (!nentry->lsm[i].args_p) > - goto out_err; > + nentry->lsm[i].args_p = entry->lsm[i].args_p; > + entry->lsm[i].args_p = NULL; Nice. > > security_filter_rule_init(nentry->lsm[i].type, > Audit_equal, > @@ -325,13 +323,6 @@ static struct ima_rule_entry *ima_lsm_copy_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry) > entry->keyrings = NULL; > entry->template = NULL; > return nentry; > - > -out_err: > - nentry->fsname = NULL; > - nentry->keyrings = NULL; > - nentry->template = NULL; > - ima_free_rule(nentry); > - return NULL; > } Definitely moving ima_free_rule() to the subsequent patch makes sense. Mimi > > static int ima_lsm_update_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry)