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To: "Stephen D. Smalley" <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Changes to the LSM file-related hooks for 2.5.58
References: <20030114191012$4fb6@gated-at.bofh.it>
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Date: 15 Jan 2003 09:49:48 +0100
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"Stephen D. Smalley" <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil> writes:
> 
> 3) Add a security_file_alloc call to init_private_file and create a
> release_private_file function to encapsulate release of private file
> structures.  These changes ensure that security structures for private
> files will be allocated and freed appropriately.

Adding release_private_file requires fixing all code that uses 
init_private_file (including possible third party code). Otherwise
you have some subtle leak. It would better to rename init_private_file to
some other name and add appropiate comments so that this can be catched 
easily at compile time.

-Andi
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