The patch titled integrity-ima-integrity_measure-support-remove-spinlock has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is integrity-ima-integrity_measure-support-remove-spinlock.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: integrity-ima-integrity_measure-support-remove-spinlock From: Reiner Sailer <sailer@xxxxxxxxxx> We have identified a potential source (spinlock around mutex_init). Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- security/evm/ima/ima_queue.c | 2 -- 1 files changed, 2 deletions(-) diff -puN security/evm/ima/ima_queue.c~integrity-ima-integrity_measure-support-remove-spinlock security/evm/ima/ima_queue.c --- a/security/evm/ima/ima_queue.c~integrity-ima-integrity_measure-support-remove-spinlock +++ a/security/evm/ima/ima_queue.c @@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ void create_htable(void) { int i; - spin_lock(&ima_queue_lock); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ima_measurements); atomic_set(&ima_htable.len, 0); atomic_set(&ima_htable.violations, 0); @@ -50,7 +49,6 @@ void create_htable(void) } mutex_init(&ima_extend_list_mutex); - spin_unlock(&ima_queue_lock); } struct queue_entry *ima_lookup_digest_entry(u8 * digest_value) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sailer@xxxxxxxxxx are integrity-ima-integrity_measure-support-remove-spinlock.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html