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Diffstat (limited to 'security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c index 582091498819..1334e02ae8f4 100644 --- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c +++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c @@ -387,17 +387,16 @@ void evm_inode_post_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *xattr_name, * @xattr_name: pointer to the affected extended attribute name * * Update the HMAC stored in 'security.evm' to reflect removal of the xattr. + * + * No need to take the i_mutex lock here, as this function is called from + * vfs_removexattr() which takes the i_mutex. */ void evm_inode_post_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *xattr_name) { - struct inode *inode = d_backing_inode(dentry); - if (!evm_initialized || !evm_protected_xattr(xattr_name)) return; - mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); evm_update_evmxattr(dentry, xattr_name, NULL, 0); - mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); } /** |