From 50462062a02226a698a211d5bd535376c89b8603 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:00:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] fs.h: ifdef security fields [assuming BSD security levels are deleted] The only user of i_security, f_security, s_security fields is SELinux, however, quite a few security modules are trying to get into kernel. So, wrap them under CONFIG_SECURITY. Adding config option for each security field is likely an overkill. Following Stephen Smalley's suggestion, i_security initialization is moved to security_inode_alloc() to not clutter core code with ifdefs and make alloc_inode() codepath tiny little bit smaller and faster. The user of (highly greppable) struct fown_struct::security field is still to be found. I've checked every "fown_struct" and every "f_owner" occurence. Additionally it's removal doesn't break i386 allmodconfig build. struct inode, struct file, struct super_block, struct fown_struct become smaller. P.S. Combined with two reiserfs inode shrinking patches sent to linux-fsdevel, I can finally suck 12 reiserfs inodes into one page. /proc/slabinfo -ext2_inode_cache 388 10 +ext2_inode_cache 384 10 -inode_cache 280 14 +inode_cache 276 14 -proc_inode_cache 296 13 +proc_inode_cache 292 13 -reiser_inode_cache 336 11 +reiser_inode_cache 332 12 <= -shmem_inode_cache 372 10 +shmem_inode_cache 368 10 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Stephen Smalley Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/security.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/security.h') diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h index 9f56fb8a4a6c..9b5fea81f55e 100644 --- a/include/linux/security.h +++ b/include/linux/security.h @@ -1595,6 +1595,7 @@ static inline void security_sb_post_pivotroot (struct nameidata *old_nd, static inline int security_inode_alloc (struct inode *inode) { + inode->i_security = NULL; return security_ops->inode_alloc_security (inode); } -- cgit v1.2.2