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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>2012-10-10 15:25:21 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-10-12 00:31:59 -0400
commit9cec9d68ae53aae60b4a1fca4505c75a1d026392 (patch)
treeda913dbacdb569b382182beb70c660ac93a39e5a
parent1c2e51e8c162417d2831007ec256ede06c3a0201 (diff)
downloadlinux-9cec9d68ae53aae60b4a1fca4505c75a1d026392.tar.gz
audit: no need to walk list in audit_inode if name is NULL
If name is NULL then the condition in the loop will never be true. Also,
with this change, we can eliminate the check for n->name == NULL since
the equivalence check will never be true if it is.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--kernel/auditsc.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 4d1bd62b090b..2e481141b014 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -2147,11 +2147,15 @@ void __audit_inode(const char *name, const struct dentry *dentry)
 	if (!context->in_syscall)
 		return;
 
+	if (!name)
+		goto out_alloc;
+
 	list_for_each_entry_reverse(n, &context->names_list, list) {
-		if (n->name && (n->name == name))
+		if (n->name == name)
 			goto out;
 	}
 
+out_alloc:
 	/* unable to find the name from a previous getname() */
 	n = audit_alloc_name(context);
 	if (!n)