ima: remove unnecessary i_mutex locking from ima_rdwr_violation_check()
authorDmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:55:47 +0000 (18:55 +0300)
committerMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 13:35:09 +0000 (09:35 -0400)
commit2c50b964823ebb7f0a098878c399ce859cd38e9e
tree19c98e19c5059c5c9fbf8d33960df729354395b3
parentb6b8a371f5541c2b839caba84fede693f3fcc43d
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 <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c