AppArmor: Drop hack to remove appended " (deleted)" string
The 2.6.36 kernel has refactored __d_path() so that it no longer appends
" (deleted)" to unlinked paths. So drop the hack that was used to detect
and remove the appended string.
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
diff --git a/security/apparmor/path.c b/security/apparmor/path.c
index 19358dc..8239605 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/path.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/path.c
@@ -59,8 +59,7 @@
{
struct path root, tmp;
char *res;
- int deleted, connected;
- int error = 0;
+ int connected, error = 0;
/* Get the root we want to resolve too, released below */
if (flags & PATH_CHROOT_REL) {
@@ -74,19 +73,8 @@
}
spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
- /* There is a race window between path lookup here and the
- * need to strip the " (deleted) string that __d_path applies
- * Detect the race and relookup the path
- *
- * The stripping of (deleted) is a hack that could be removed
- * with an updated __d_path
- */
- do {
- tmp = root;
- deleted = d_unlinked(path->dentry);
- res = __d_path(path, &tmp, buf, buflen);
-
- } while (deleted != d_unlinked(path->dentry));
+ tmp = root;
+ res = __d_path(path, &tmp, buf, buflen);
spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
*name = res;
@@ -98,21 +86,17 @@
*name = buf;
goto out;
}
- if (deleted) {
- /* On some filesystems, newly allocated dentries appear to the
- * security_path hooks as a deleted dentry except without an
- * inode allocated.
- *
- * Remove the appended deleted text and return as string for
- * normal mediation, or auditing. The (deleted) string is
- * guaranteed to be added in this case, so just strip it.
- */
- buf[buflen - 11] = 0; /* - (len(" (deleted)") +\0) */
- if (path->dentry->d_inode && !(flags & PATH_MEDIATE_DELETED)) {
+ /* Handle two cases:
+ * 1. A deleted dentry && profile is not allowing mediation of deleted
+ * 2. On some filesystems, newly allocated dentries appear to the
+ * security_path hooks as a deleted dentry except without an inode
+ * allocated.
+ */
+ if (d_unlinked(path->dentry) && path->dentry->d_inode &&
+ !(flags & PATH_MEDIATE_DELETED)) {
error = -ENOENT;
goto out;
- }
}
/* Determine if the path is connected to the expected root */
