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authorAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2015-09-08 01:01:14 -0300
committerAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2015-09-08 01:01:14 -0300
commite5fd91f1ef340da553f7a79da9540c3db711c937 (patch)
treeb11842027dc6641da63f4bcc524f8678263304a3 /security/integrity/evm
parent2a9b0348e685a63d97486f6749622b61e9e3292f (diff)
Linux-libre 4.2-gnu
Diffstat (limited to 'security/integrity/evm')
-rw-r--r--security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
index 582091498..1334e02ae 100644
--- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
+++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
@@ -387,17 +387,16 @@ void evm_inode_post_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *xattr_name,
* @xattr_name: pointer to the affected extended attribute name
*
* Update the HMAC stored in 'security.evm' to reflect removal of the xattr.
+ *
+ * No need to take the i_mutex lock here, as this function is called from
+ * vfs_removexattr() which takes the i_mutex.
*/
void evm_inode_post_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *xattr_name)
{
- struct inode *inode = d_backing_inode(dentry);
-
if (!evm_initialized || !evm_protected_xattr(xattr_name))
return;
- mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
evm_update_evmxattr(dentry, xattr_name, NULL, 0);
- mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
}
/**