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Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:47:19 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, jmorris@...ei.org
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, oleg@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] SELinux: Remove excessive interrupt disablement

There's no need to disable interrupts with spin_lock_irqsave() inside of
read_lock_irq().

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
---

 security/selinux/hooks.c |    5 ++---
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index ba808ef..0702ba6 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -2378,7 +2378,6 @@ static void selinux_bprm_committed_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 	struct sighand_struct *psig;
 	u32 osid, sid;
 	int rc, i;
-	unsigned long flags;
 
 	osid = tsec->osid;
 	sid = tsec->sid;
@@ -2410,9 +2409,9 @@ static void selinux_bprm_committed_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 	 * wait permission to the new task SID. */
 	read_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 	psig = current->parent->sighand;
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&psig->siglock, flags);
+	spin_lock(&psig->siglock);
 	wake_up_interruptible(&current->parent->signal->wait_chldexit);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psig->siglock, flags);
+	spin_unlock(&psig->siglock);
 	read_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 }
 

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