From ab763c7112ce0e2559c73f921617c81dc7287ca6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew G. Morgan" Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:28:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] security: filesystem capabilities refactor kernel code To date, we've tried hard to confine filesystem support for capabilities to the security modules. This has left a lot of the code in kernel/capability.c in a state where it looks like it supports something that filesystem support for capabilities actually suppresses when the LSM security/commmoncap.c code runs. What is left is a lot of code that uses sub-optimal locking in the main kernel With this change we refactor the main kernel code and make it explicit which locks are needed and that the only remaining kernel races in this area are associated with non-filesystem capability code. Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed