linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] audit: cache ctx->major in audit_filter

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Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2022 14:23:54 -0400
From:   Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To:     Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@...cle.com>
Cc:     linux-audit@...hat.com, eparis@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com,
        konrad.wilk@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] audit: cache ctx->major in audit_filter_syscall()

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 6:03 PM Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 6:59 PM Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@...cle.com> wrote:
> >
> > ctx->major contains the current syscall number. This is, of course, a
> > constant for the duration of the syscall. Unfortunately, GCC's alias
> > analysis cannot prove that it is not modified via a pointer in the
> > audit_filter_syscall() loop, and so always loads it from memory.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@...cle.com>
> > ---
> >  kernel/auditsc.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> This looks pretty trivial to me, but it's too late in the current -rc
> cycle for this to be merged, I'll queue it up for after the upcoming
> merge window closes.  Thanks.

I just merged this into audit/next, thanks again!

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