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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-25 17:30:53 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-25 17:30:53 +0100
commit0b9e31e9264f1bad89856afb96da1688292f13b4 (patch)
tree7a9e9b6456dce993efeed8734de0a15a1f16ae94 /security/selinux/avc.c
parentcf82ff7ea7695b0e82ba07bc5e9f1bd03a74e1aa (diff)
parent964fe080d94db82a3268443e9b9ece4c60246414 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Conflicts: fs/proc/array.c Merge reason: resolve conflict and queue up dependent patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/selinux/avc.c')
-rw-r--r--security/selinux/avc.c19
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/security/selinux/avc.c b/security/selinux/avc.c
index 1ed0f076aad..b4b5da1c0a4 100644
--- a/security/selinux/avc.c
+++ b/security/selinux/avc.c
@@ -868,8 +868,19 @@ u32 avc_policy_seqno(void)
void avc_disable(void)
{
- avc_flush();
- synchronize_rcu();
- if (avc_node_cachep)
- kmem_cache_destroy(avc_node_cachep);
+ /*
+ * If you are looking at this because you have realized that we are
+ * not destroying the avc_node_cachep it might be easy to fix, but
+ * I don't know the memory barrier semantics well enough to know. It's
+ * possible that some other task dereferenced security_ops when
+ * it still pointed to selinux operations. If that is the case it's
+ * possible that it is about to use the avc and is about to need the
+ * avc_node_cachep. I know I could wrap the security.c security_ops call
+ * in an rcu_lock, but seriously, it's not worth it. Instead I just flush
+ * the cache and get that memory back.
+ */
+ if (avc_node_cachep) {
+ avc_flush();
+ /* kmem_cache_destroy(avc_node_cachep); */
+ }
}