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SELinux: remove unused av.decided field

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It appears there was an intention to have the security server only decide
certain permissions and leave other for later as some sort of a portential
performance win.  We are currently always deciding all 32 bits of
permissions and this is a useless couple of branches and wasted space.
This patch completely drops the av.decided concept.

This in a 17% reduction in the time spent in avc_has_perm_noaudit
based on oprofile sampling of a tbench benchmark.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Acked-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Eric Paris
2009-02-12 14:50:54 -05:00
committed by James Morris
parent 21193dcd1f
commit f1c6381a6e
4 changed files with 6 additions and 14 deletions
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@@ -407,7 +407,6 @@ static int context_struct_compute_av(struct context *scontext,
* Initialize the access vectors to the default values.
*/
avd->allowed = 0;
avd->decided = 0xffffffff;
avd->auditallow = 0;
avd->auditdeny = 0xffffffff;
avd->seqno = latest_granting;
@@ -743,7 +742,6 @@ int security_compute_av(u32 ssid,
if (!ss_initialized) {
avd->allowed = 0xffffffff;
avd->decided = 0xffffffff;
avd->auditallow = 0;
avd->auditdeny = 0xffffffff;
avd->seqno = latest_granting;