From 3e62cbb8436f6c0cb799c8b7f106de7f662a7b8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:14:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] smack: opt_dentry is never null in in smack_d_instantiate()
This patch removes some unneeded code for if opt_dentry is null because
that can never happen.
The function dereferences "opt_dentry" earlier when it checks
"if (opt_dentry->d_parent == opt_dentry) {". That code was added in
2008.
This function called from security_d_instantiate(). I checked all the
places which call security_d_instantiate() and dentry is always non-null.
I also checked the selinux version of this hook and there is a comment
which says that dentry should be non-null if called from
d_instantiate().
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
---
security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 14 ++------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
index 0f2fc480fc61..07abc9ce72f2 100644
--- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
+++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
@@ -2191,7 +2191,7 @@ static void smack_ipc_getsecid(struct kern_ipc_perm *ipp, u32 *secid)
/**
* smack_d_instantiate - Make sure the blob is correct on an inode
- * @opt_dentry: unused
+ * @opt_dentry: dentry where inode will be attached
* @inode: the object
*
* Set the inode's security blob if it hasn't been done already.
@@ -2310,20 +2310,10 @@ static void smack_d_instantiate(struct dentry *opt_dentry, struct inode *inode)
/*
* Get the dentry for xattr.
*/
- if (opt_dentry == NULL) {
- dp = d_find_alias(inode);
- if (dp == NULL)
- break;
- } else {
- dp = dget(opt_dentry);
- if (dp == NULL)
- break;
- }
-
+ dp = dget(opt_dentry);
fetched = smk_fetch(inode, dp);
if (fetched != NULL)
final = fetched;
-
dput(dp);
break;
}
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