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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2009-02-12 14:50:54 -0500
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2009-02-14 09:23:08 +1100
commitf1c6381a6e337adcecf84be2a838bd9e610e2365 (patch)
treea6e0857db27a38b0976fb422836f9443241b4b61 /security/selinux/ss
parent21193dcd1f3570ddfd8a04f4465e484c1f94252f (diff)
downloadlinux-f1c6381a6e337adcecf84be2a838bd9e610e2365.tar.gz
SELinux: remove unused av.decided field
It appears there was an intention to have the security server only decide
certain permissions and leave other for later as some sort of a portential
performance win.  We are currently always deciding all 32 bits of
permissions and this is a useless couple of branches and wasted space.
This patch completely drops the av.decided concept.

This in a 17% reduction in the time spent in avc_has_perm_noaudit
based on oprofile sampling of a tbench benchmark.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Acked-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/selinux/ss')
-rw-r--r--security/selinux/ss/services.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/services.c b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
index c65e4fe4a0f1..deeec6c013ae 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/services.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
@@ -407,7 +407,6 @@ static int context_struct_compute_av(struct context *scontext,
 	 * Initialize the access vectors to the default values.
 	 */
 	avd->allowed = 0;
-	avd->decided = 0xffffffff;
 	avd->auditallow = 0;
 	avd->auditdeny = 0xffffffff;
 	avd->seqno = latest_granting;
@@ -743,7 +742,6 @@ int security_compute_av(u32 ssid,
 
 	if (!ss_initialized) {
 		avd->allowed = 0xffffffff;
-		avd->decided = 0xffffffff;
 		avd->auditallow = 0;
 		avd->auditdeny = 0xffffffff;
 		avd->seqno = latest_granting;