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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2010-10-25 14:42:05 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-26 11:37:18 -0700
commitbc7d2a3e66b40477270c3cbe3b89b47093276e7a (patch)
tree8f0198b8ad455fde11b24e32a2e32c008a5ececb /security/security.c
parenta178d2027d3198b0a04517d764326ab71cd73da2 (diff)
downloadlinux-bc7d2a3e66b40477270c3cbe3b89b47093276e7a.tar.bz2
IMA: only allocate iint when needed
IMA always allocates an integrity structure to hold information about every inode, but only needed this structure to track the number of readers and writers currently accessing a given inode. Since that information was moved into struct inode instead of the integrity struct this patch stops allocating the integrity stucture until it is needed. Thus greatly reducing memory usage. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/security.c')
-rw-r--r--security/security.c10
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index c53949f17d9e..a3b47feccae9 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -333,16 +333,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_sb_parse_opts_str);
int security_inode_alloc(struct inode *inode)
{
- int ret;
-
inode->i_security = NULL;
- ret = security_ops->inode_alloc_security(inode);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
- ret = ima_inode_alloc(inode);
- if (ret)
- security_inode_free(inode);
- return ret;
+ return security_ops->inode_alloc_security(inode);
}
void security_inode_free(struct inode *inode)