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| author | Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> | 2013-07-25 05:44:02 +0900 |
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| committer | James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> | 2013-07-25 19:30:03 +1000 |
| commit | 9548906b2bb7ff09e12c013a55d669bef2c8e121 (patch) | |
| tree | b75ba2bc69d82c1040cac0ea9113a17b39e82b93 /security/smack/smack_lsm.c | |
| parent | be0306bcc3a0b0725b0f99b06d56a29a6d906b7c (diff) | |
| download | lwn-9548906b2bb7ff09e12c013a55d669bef2c8e121.tar.gz lwn-9548906b2bb7ff09e12c013a55d669bef2c8e121.zip | |
xattr: Constify ->name member of "struct xattr".
Since everybody sets kstrdup()ed constant string to "struct xattr"->name but
nobody modifies "struct xattr"->name , we can omit kstrdup() and its failure
checking by constifying ->name member of "struct xattr".
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reviewed-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> [ocfs2]
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Tested-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/smack/smack_lsm.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c index 3f7682a387b7..a113a779f00c 100644 --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c @@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ static void smack_inode_free_security(struct inode *inode) * Returns 0 if it all works out, -ENOMEM if there's no memory */ static int smack_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir, - const struct qstr *qstr, char **name, + const struct qstr *qstr, const char **name, void **value, size_t *len) { struct inode_smack *issp = inode->i_security; @@ -591,11 +591,8 @@ static int smack_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir, char *dsp = smk_of_inode(dir); int may; - if (name) { - *name = kstrdup(XATTR_SMACK_SUFFIX, GFP_NOFS); - if (*name == NULL) - return -ENOMEM; - } + if (name) + *name = XATTR_SMACK_SUFFIX; if (value) { rcu_read_lock(); |