On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

> +     err = security_inode_killpriv(out->f_path.dentry, LSM_NEED_LOCK);
> +     if (err)
> +             return err;
> +
>       err = should_remove_suid(out->f_path.dentry);
>       if (unlikely(err)) {
>               mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);

It seems hackish to pass a needlock arg to an API, and that that we'll end 
up with some conceptually similar call-outs for both caps and setuid.

How about encapsulating this stuff so that there's something like:


        err = should_remove_privs();
        if (err)
                remove_privs();

with

void remove_privs()
{
        mutex_lock();
        __remove_privs();
        mutex_unlock();
}

and then __remove_privs() handles the logic for all file privileges, 
including at this stage suid and the LSM call for file caps ?



- James
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