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Diffstat (limited to 'security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c index 39ad1038d45d..cfc3075769bb 100644 --- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c +++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c @@ -232,7 +232,14 @@ static ssize_t evm_write_xattrs(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, goto out; } - /* Guard against races in evm_read_xattrs */ + /* + * xattr_list_mutex guards against races in evm_read_xattrs(). + * Entries are only added to the evm_config_xattrnames list + * and never deleted. Therefore, the list is traversed + * using list_for_each_entry_lockless() without holding + * the mutex in evm_calc_hmac_or_hash(), evm_find_protected_xattrs() + * and evm_protected_xattr(). + */ mutex_lock(&xattr_list_mutex); list_for_each_entry(tmp, &evm_config_xattrnames, list) { if (strcmp(xattr->name, tmp->name) == 0) { |