From 2c50b964823ebb7f0a098878c399ce859cd38e9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Kasatkin Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 18:55:47 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] ima: remove unnecessary i_mutex locking from ima_rdwr_violation_check() Before 2.6.39 inode->i_readcount was maintained by IMA. It was not atomic and protected using spinlock. For 2.6.39, i_readcount was converted to atomic and maintaining was moved VFS layer. Spinlock for some unclear reason was replaced by i_mutex. After analyzing the code, we came to conclusion that i_mutex locking is unnecessary, especially when an IMA policy has not been defined. This patch removes i_mutex locking from ima_rdwr_violation_check(). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar --- Reading git-format-patch failed