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Message-ID: <1865922a0711041206m4a132200m19e33189137c901@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 22:06:45 +0200
From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@...il.com>
To: "Casey Schaufler" <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
Cc: akpm@...l.org, torvalds@...l.org,
linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser
On 11/3/07, Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@...il.com> wrote:
> static int smk_open_load(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> {
> - return seq_open(file, &load_seq_ops);
> + if ((file->f_flags & O_ACCMODE) == O_RDONLY)
> + return seq_open(file, &load_seq_ops);
> +
> + if (down_interruptible(&smack_write_sem))
> + return -ERESTARTSYS;
> +
> + load_state = kzalloc(sizeof(struct smack_load_state), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!load_state)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
Is it right to do the kzalloc with the semaphore being held? Will the
lock be held forever If kzalloc failed and -ENOMEM was returned ?
Thanks,
--
Ahmed S. Darwish
Homepage: http://darwish.07.googlepages.com
Blog: http://darwish-07.blogspot.com
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