LSM: switch to blocking policy update notifiers

Atomic policy updaters are not very useful as they cannot
usually perform the policy updates on their own. Since it
seems that there is no strict need for the atomicity,
switch to the blocking variant. While doing so, rename
the functions accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Janne Karhunen <janne.karhunen@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index 613a5c00e602..47e5849d7557 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 #define LSM_COUNT (__end_lsm_info - __start_lsm_info)
 
 struct security_hook_heads security_hook_heads __lsm_ro_after_init;
-static ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(lsm_notifier_chain);
+static BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(blocking_lsm_notifier_chain);
 
 static struct kmem_cache *lsm_file_cache;
 static struct kmem_cache *lsm_inode_cache;
@@ -430,23 +430,26 @@ void __init security_add_hooks(struct security_hook_list *hooks, int count,
                 panic("%s - Cannot get early memory.\n", __func__);
 }
 
-int call_lsm_notifier(enum lsm_event event, void *data)
+int call_blocking_lsm_notifier(enum lsm_event event, void *data)
 {
-        return atomic_notifier_call_chain(&lsm_notifier_chain, event, data);
+        return blocking_notifier_call_chain(&blocking_lsm_notifier_chain,
+                                            event, data);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_lsm_notifier);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_blocking_lsm_notifier);
 
-int register_lsm_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
+int register_blocking_lsm_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
 {
-        return atomic_notifier_chain_register(&lsm_notifier_chain, nb);
+        return blocking_notifier_chain_register(&blocking_lsm_notifier_chain,
+                                                nb);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_lsm_notifier);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_blocking_lsm_notifier);
 
-int unregister_lsm_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
+int unregister_blocking_lsm_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
 {
-        return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&lsm_notifier_chain, nb);
+        return blocking_notifier_chain_unregister(&blocking_lsm_notifier_chain,
+                                                  nb);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_lsm_notifier);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_blocking_lsm_notifier);
 
 /**
  * lsm_cred_alloc - allocate a composite cred blob