linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ifdef struct task

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Date:	Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:31:12 -0500
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ifdef struct task_struct::security

Quoting Alexey Dobriyan (adobriyan@...il.com):
> For those who don't care about CONFIG_SECURITY.

I'm quite sure we started that way, but the ifdefs were considered
too much of an eyesore.

If this is now acceptable, then the same thing might be considered
for inode->i_security, kern_ipc_perm.security, etc.  Getting rid of
just the task->security seems overly half-hearted.

-serge

> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
> ---
> 
>  include/linux/sched.h |    3 ++-
>  kernel/fork.c         |    2 ++
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -1086,8 +1086,9 @@ struct task_struct {
>  	int (*notifier)(void *priv);
>  	void *notifier_data;
>  	sigset_t *notifier_mask;
> -	
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
>  	void *security;
> +#endif
>  	struct audit_context *audit_context;
>  	seccomp_t seccomp;
>  
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -1066,7 +1066,9 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
>  	do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(&p->start_time);
>  	p->real_start_time = p->start_time;
>  	monotonic_to_bootbased(&p->real_start_time);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
>  	p->security = NULL;
> +#endif
>  	p->io_context = NULL;
>  	p->io_wait = NULL;
>  	p->audit_context = NULL;
> 
> -
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