AppArmor: Drop hack to remove appended " (deleted)" string
authorJohn Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:33:26 +0000 (18:33 -0700)
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 23:19:24 +0000 (09:19 +1000)
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>
security/apparmor/path.c

index 19358dc14605bae1422ae00226291751695ba44c..82396050f18646ac0519352321637e930c05e367 100644 (file)
@@ -59,8 +59,7 @@ static int d_namespace_path(struct path *path, char *buf, int buflen,
 {
        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 @@ static int d_namespace_path(struct path *path, char *buf, int buflen,
        }
 
        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 @@ static int d_namespace_path(struct path *path, char *buf, int buflen,
                *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 */