linux-kernel - [PATCH 04/11] IMA: convert internal flags from long to char

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Date:	Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:41:39 -0400
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	hch@...radead.org, zohar@...ibm.com, warthog9@...nel.org,
	david@...morbit.com, jmorris@...ei.org, kyle@...artin.ca,
	hpa@...or.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu, eparis@...hat.com,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Subject: [PATCH 04/11] IMA: convert internal flags from long to char

The IMA flags is an unsigned long but there is only 1 flag defined.  Lets
save a little space and make it a char.  This packs nicely next to the array
of u8's.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 security/integrity/ima/ima.h |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima.h b/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
index 000d13a..f7af011 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
@@ -96,14 +96,14 @@ static inline unsigned long ima_hash_key(u8 *digest)
 }
 
 /* iint cache flags */
-#define IMA_MEASURED		1
+#define IMA_MEASURED		0x01
 
 /* integrity data associated with an inode */
 struct ima_iint_cache {
 	struct rb_node rb_node; /* rooted in ima_iint_tree */
 	struct inode *inode;	/* back pointer to inode in question */
 	u64 version;		/* track inode changes */
-	unsigned long flags;
+	unsigned char flags;
 	u8 digest[IMA_DIGEST_SIZE];
 	struct mutex mutex;	/* protects: version, flags, digest */
 	unsigned int readcount;	/* measured files readcount */

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