This is required to prevent callbacks triggering RCU machinery too quickly and too often, which adds more power to the system. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- security/security.c | 2 +- security/selinux/avc.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c index 22261d79f333..42c165631e8f 100644 --- a/security/security.c +++ b/security/security.c @@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ void security_inode_free(struct inode *inode) * The inode will be freed after the RCU grace period too. */ if (inode->i_security) - call_rcu((struct rcu_head *)inode->i_security, + call_rcu_lazy((struct rcu_head *)inode->i_security, inode_free_by_rcu); } diff --git a/security/selinux/avc.c b/security/selinux/avc.c index abcd9740d10f..8c639c6df955 100644 --- a/security/selinux/avc.c +++ b/security/selinux/avc.c @@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ static void avc_node_free(struct rcu_head *rhead) static void avc_node_delete(struct selinux_avc *avc, struct avc_node *node) { hlist_del_rcu(&node->list); - call_rcu(&node->rhead, avc_node_free); + call_rcu_lazy(&node->rhead, avc_node_free); atomic_dec(&avc->avc_cache.active_nodes); } @@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ static void avc_node_replace(struct selinux_avc *avc, struct avc_node *new, struct avc_node *old) { hlist_replace_rcu(&old->list, &new->list); - call_rcu(&old->rhead, avc_node_free); + call_rcu_lazy(&old->rhead, avc_node_free); atomic_dec(&avc->avc_cache.active_nodes); } -- 2.36.0.550.gb090851708-goog