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From: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
To: jack@suse.cz
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, rgb@redhat.com, amir73il@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] audit: Remove pointless check in insert_hash()
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:47:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHC9VhQ1hr-_PLY=NBbfHH7kCs=uE3JZ9opcM2bbvSKk5t0VrQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180710100217.12866-8-jack@suse.cz>

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 6:02 AM Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> The audit_tree_group->mark_mutex is held all the time while we create
> the fsnotify mark, add it to the inode, and insert chunk into the hash.
> Hence mark cannot get detached during this time and so the check whether
> the mark is attached in insert_hash() is pointless.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> ---
>  kernel/audit_tree.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

This makes sense.

--
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-27  6:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-10 10:02 [PATCH 0/10 v2] audit: Fix various races when tagging and untagging mounts Jan Kara
2018-07-10 10:02 ` [PATCH 01/10] audit_tree: Remove mark->lock locking Jan Kara
2018-07-27  4:47   ` Paul Moore
2018-09-04  9:53     ` Jan Kara
2018-07-10 10:02 ` [PATCH 02/10] audit: Fix possible spurious -ENOSPC error Jan Kara
2018-07-27  4:47   ` Paul Moore
2018-09-04 10:00     ` Jan Kara
2018-07-10 10:02 ` [PATCH 03/10] audit: Fix possible tagging failures Jan Kara
2018-07-10 10:02 ` [PATCH 04/10] audit: Embed key into chunk Jan Kara
2018-07-27  4:47   ` Paul Moore
2018-07-10 10:02 ` [PATCH 05/10] audit: Make hash table insertion safe against concurrent lookups Jan Kara
2018-07-10 10:02 ` [PATCH 06/10] audit: Factor out chunk replacement code Jan Kara
2018-07-11  7:58   ` Amir Goldstein
2018-07-11  8:26     ` Jan Kara
2018-07-11  9:01       ` Amir Goldstein
2018-07-11  9:23         ` Jan Kara
2018-07-27  4:47   ` Paul Moore
2018-07-10 10:02 ` [PATCH 07/10] audit: Remove pointless check in insert_hash() Jan Kara
2018-07-27  4:47   ` Paul Moore [this message]
2018-07-10 10:02 ` [PATCH 08/10] audit: Provide helper for dropping mark's chunk reference Jan Kara
2018-07-10 10:02 ` [PATCH 09/10] audit: Allocate fsnotify mark independently of chunk Jan Kara
2018-07-11  8:57   ` Amir Goldstein
2018-07-11 10:48     ` Amir Goldstein
2018-07-16 15:13       ` Jan Kara
2018-07-27  4:47   ` Paul Moore
2018-09-04 14:03     ` Jan Kara
2018-09-04 14:07       ` Jan Kara
2018-07-10 10:02 ` [PATCH 10/10] audit: Replace chunk attached to mark instead of replacing mark Jan Kara
2018-07-11 14:17   ` Amir Goldstein
2018-07-27  4:47   ` Paul Moore
2018-09-04 14:11     ` Jan Kara
2018-07-10 10:02 ` [PATCH 11/10 TESTSUITE] audit_testsuite: Add stress test for tree watches Jan Kara

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