linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: don't embed integrity

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Date:   Thu, 9 Mar 2023 22:46:50 +0100
From:   Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@....unizg.hr>
To:     Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: don't embed integrity_kobj into gendisk

On 09. 03. 2023. 22:23, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:

Very well, but who then destroys the cache crated here:

security/integrity/iint.c:177-179
> 177         iint_cache =
> 178             kmem_cache_create("iint_cache", sizeof(struct integrity_iint_cache),
> 179                               0, SLAB_PANIC, init_once);

I assumed that it must have been done from iint.c because iint_cache is
static?

BTW, moving check for !ktype->release to kobject_init() is great for it
might make such problems noticed in dmesg, rather than taking screenshots.

Regards,

-- 
Mirsad Goran Todorovac
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