linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Use an IDR to allocate apparmor secids

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Date:   Mon, 4 Jun 2018 19:35:24 -0700
From:   John Johansen <john.johansen@...onical.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use an IDR to allocate apparmor secids

On 06/04/2018 07:27 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 06:27:09PM -0700, John Johansen wrote:
>> hey Mathew,
>>
>> I've pulled this into apparmor-next and done the retuning of
>> AA_SECID_INVALID a follow on patch. The reworking of the api to
>> return the specific error type can wait for another cycle.
> 
> Oh ... here's what I currently have.  I decided that AA_SECID_INVALID
> wasn't needed.
> 
well not needed in the allocation path, but definitely needed and it
needs to be 0.

This is for catching some uninitialized or freed and zeroed values.
The debug checks aren't in the current version, as they were
residing in another debug patch, but I will pull them out into their
own patch.