linux/security
Linus Torvalds 95f4efb2d7 selinux: simplify and clean up inode_has_perm()
This is a rather hot function that is called with a potentially NULL
"struct common_audit_data" pointer argument.  And in that case it has to
provide and initialize its own dummy common_audit_data structure.

However, all the _common_ cases already pass it a real audit-data
structure, so that uncommon NULL case not only creates a silly run-time
test, more importantly it causes that function to have a big stack frame
for the dummy variable that isn't even used in the common case!

So get rid of that stupid run-time behavior, and make the (few)
functions that currently call with a NULL pointer just call a new helper
function instead (naturally called inode_has_perm_noapd(), since it has
no adp argument).

This makes the run-time test be a static code generation issue instead,
and allows for a much denser stack since none of the common callers need
the dummy structure.  And a denser stack not only means less stack space
usage, it means better cache behavior.  So we have a win-win-win from
this simplification: less code executed, smaller stack footprint, and
better cache behavior.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-08 15:11:56 -07:00
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apparmor AppArmor: fix oops in apparmor_setprocattr 2011-06-01 13:07:03 +10:00
integrity/ima
keys Merge branch 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs 2011-05-27 10:25:02 -07:00
selinux selinux: simplify and clean up inode_has_perm() 2011-06-08 15:11:56 -07:00
smack
tomoyo
capability.c
commoncap.c
device_cgroup.c
inode.c
Kconfig
lsm_audit.c
Makefile
min_addr.c
security.c