From 4bea58053f206be9a89ca35850f9ad295dac2042 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David P. Quigley" Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:29:40 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] VFS: Reorder vfs_getxattr to avoid unnecessary calls to the LSM Originally vfs_getxattr would pull the security xattr variable using the inode getxattr handle and then proceed to clobber it with a subsequent call to the LSM. This patch reorders the two operations such that when the xattr requested is in the security namespace it first attempts to grab the value from the LSM directly. If it fails to obtain the value because there is no module present or the module does not support the operation it will fall back to using the inode getxattr operation. In the event that both are inaccessible it returns EOPNOTSUPP. Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley Cc: Stephen Smalley Cc: Chris Wright Acked-by: James Morris Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Cc: Casey Schaufler Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/xattr.c | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c index 1858552a6a1..f7c8f87bb39 100644 --- a/fs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/xattr.c @@ -145,11 +145,6 @@ vfs_getxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *name, void *value, size_t size) if (error) return error; - if (inode->i_op->getxattr) - error = inode->i_op->getxattr(dentry, name, value, size); - else - error = -EOPNOTSUPP; - if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN)) { const char *suffix = name + XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN; @@ -158,9 +153,15 @@ vfs_getxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *name, void *value, size_t size) * Only overwrite the return value if a security module * is actually active. */ - if (ret != -EOPNOTSUPP) - error = ret; + if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP) + goto nolsm; + return ret; } +nolsm: + if (inode->i_op->getxattr) + error = inode->i_op->getxattr(dentry, name, value, size); + else + error = -EOPNOTSUPP; return error; } -- 2.41.1