linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix IMA lockdep circular locking dependency

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2012 09:27:05 -0400
From:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ibm.com>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix IMA lockdep circular locking dependency

On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 21:38 +1000, James Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2012, James Morris wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 15 May 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > > Hmm?
> > 
> > diff --git a/security/capability.c b/security/capability.c
> > index 5bb21b1c448c..9a19c6a54e12 100644
> > --- a/security/capability.c
> > +++ b/security/capability.c
> > @@ -949,7 +949,6 @@ void __init security_fixup_ops(struct 
> > security_operations *ops)
> >         set_to_cap_if_null(ops, file_alloc_security);
> >         set_to_cap_if_null(ops, file_free_security);
> >         set_to_cap_if_null(ops, file_ioctl);
> > -       set_to_cap_if_null(ops, file_mmap);
> >         set_to_cap_if_null(ops, file_mprotect);
> >         set_to_cap_if_null(ops, file_lock);
> >         set_to_cap_if_null(ops, file_fcntl);
> > 
> > 
> > Do we need to add addr_map to the fixup ops?
> 
> mmap_addr I mean.

I would think so.


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