Re: Question about inode security blob

On Mon, 11 Jan 2021, Fan Wu wrote:

quoted

The inode->i_security should never be NULL if the inode has been
initialized. Any LSM hook that finds this to be NULL has probably
identified a bug elsewhere in the system.

Thanks for the quick reply. If I understand correctly, I should follow the
first pattern if I want to use the inode blob.

I don't think it's necessary, and if there's a race somewhere causing 
this, we shouldn't just paper it over.

Btw, none of the existing cases are even using WARN_ON or similar to let 
the user know there's a problem.


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James Morris
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