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[PATCH] fs.h: ifdef security fields

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[assuming BSD security levels are deleted]
The only user of i_security, f_security, s_security fields is SELinux,
however, quite a few security modules are trying to get into kernel.
So, wrap them under CONFIG_SECURITY. Adding config option for each
security field is likely an overkill.

Following Stephen Smalley's suggestion, i_security initialization is
moved to security_inode_alloc() to not clutter core code with ifdefs
and make alloc_inode() codepath tiny little bit smaller and faster.

The user of (highly greppable) struct fown_struct::security field is
still to be found. I've checked every "fown_struct" and every "f_owner"
occurence. Additionally it's removal doesn't break i386 allmodconfig
build.

struct inode, struct file, struct super_block, struct fown_struct
become smaller.

P.S. Combined with two reiserfs inode shrinking patches sent to
linux-fsdevel, I can finally suck 12 reiserfs inodes into one page.

		/proc/slabinfo

	-ext2_inode_cache	388	10
	+ext2_inode_cache	384	10
	-inode_cache		280	14
	+inode_cache		276	14
	-proc_inode_cache	296	13
	+proc_inode_cache	292	13
	-reiser_inode_cache	336	11
	+reiser_inode_cache	332	12 <=
	-shmem_inode_cache	372	10
	+shmem_inode_cache	368	10

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan
2006-09-29 02:00:01 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent cfe14677f2
commit 50462062a0
3 changed files with 7 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -553,7 +553,9 @@ struct inode {
unsigned int i_flags;
atomic_t i_writecount;
#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
void *i_security;
#endif
void *i_private; /* fs or device private pointer */
#ifdef __NEED_I_SIZE_ORDERED
seqcount_t i_size_seqcount;
@ -645,7 +647,6 @@ struct fown_struct {
rwlock_t lock; /* protects pid, uid, euid fields */
int pid; /* pid or -pgrp where SIGIO should be sent */
uid_t uid, euid; /* uid/euid of process setting the owner */
void *security;
int signum; /* posix.1b rt signal to be delivered on IO */
};
@ -688,8 +689,9 @@ struct file {
struct file_ra_state f_ra;
unsigned long f_version;
#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
void *f_security;
#endif
/* needed for tty driver, and maybe others */
void *private_data;
@ -877,7 +879,9 @@ struct super_block {
int s_syncing;
int s_need_sync_fs;
atomic_t s_active;
#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
void *s_security;
#endif
struct xattr_handler **s_xattr;
struct list_head s_inodes; /* all inodes */