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authorDavid P. Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>2008-02-04 22:29:40 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-05 09:44:20 -0800
commit4bea58053f206be9a89ca35850f9ad295dac2042 (patch)
tree50df31f6b7e8d38ac0988a523e331babb6462216 /fs
parent42492594043d621a7910ff5877c3eb9202870b45 (diff)
VFS: Reorder vfs_getxattr to avoid unnecessary calls to the LSM
Originally vfs_getxattr would pull the security xattr variable using the inode getxattr handle and then proceed to clobber it with a subsequent call to the LSM. This patch reorders the two operations such that when the xattr requested is in the security namespace it first attempts to grab the value from the LSM directly. If it fails to obtain the value because there is no module present or the module does not support the operation it will fall back to using the inode getxattr operation. In the event that both are inaccessible it returns EOPNOTSUPP. Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/xattr.c15
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 1858552a6a1a..f7c8f87bb390 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -145,11 +145,6 @@ vfs_getxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *name, void *value, size_t size)
if (error)
return error;
- if (inode->i_op->getxattr)
- error = inode->i_op->getxattr(dentry, name, value, size);
- else
- error = -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX,
XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN)) {
const char *suffix = name + XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN;
@@ -158,9 +153,15 @@ vfs_getxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *name, void *value, size_t size)
* Only overwrite the return value if a security module
* is actually active.
*/
- if (ret != -EOPNOTSUPP)
- error = ret;
+ if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
+ goto nolsm;
+ return ret;
}
+nolsm:
+ if (inode->i_op->getxattr)
+ error = inode->i_op->getxattr(dentry, name, value, size);
+ else
+ error = -EOPNOTSUPP;
return error;
}