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authorManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>2017-07-12 14:35:16 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-12 16:26:02 -0700
commita2642f8770993a1598500bb6a8082b7c32faff8b (patch)
tree426e3190b86cd610744d127ac43df1d8aa19c2a4 /ipc/msg.c
parent2ec55f8024db859d70f14c26e91ca044328dd50d (diff)
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ipc/shm.c: avoid ipc_rcu_putref for failed ipc_addid()
Loosely based on a patch from Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>:
 - id and error can be merged
 - if operations before ipc_addid() fail, then use call_rcu() directly.

The difference is that call_rcu is used for failures after
security_shm_alloc(), to continue to guaranteed an rcu delay for
security_sem_free().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525185107.12869-15-manfred@colorfullife.com
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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