Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Changes to the LSM file-related hooks for 2.5.58 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 15 Jan 2003 09:49:48 +0100 |
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"Stephen D. Smalley" <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil> writes: > > 3) Add a security_file_alloc call to init_private_file and create a > release_private_file function to encapsulate release of private file > structures. These changes ensure that security structures for private > files will be allocated and freed appropriately.
Adding release_private_file requires fixing all code that uses init_private_file (including possible third party code). Otherwise you have some subtle leak. It would better to rename init_private_file to some other name and add appropiate comments so that this can be catched easily at compile time.
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