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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 22/79] Smack: Mark inode instant in
 smack_task_to_inode
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
To:     Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
        James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
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On Thu, 2018-08-23 at 09:52 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 7b4e88434c4e7982fb053c49657e1c8bbb8692d9 ]
> 
> Smack: Mark inode instant in smack_task_to_inode
> 
> /proc clean-up in commit 1bbc55131e59bd099fdc568d3aa0b42634dbd188

That change ("/proc clean-up") only went into 4.18 and hasn't been
backported to stable, so does this make sense for earlier stable
branches?

Ben.

> resulted in smack_task_to_inode() being called before smack_d_instantiate.
> This resulted in the smk_inode value being ignored, even while present
> for files in /proc/self. Marking the inode as instant here fixes that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  security/smack/smack_lsm.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
> +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
> @@ -2260,6 +2260,7 @@ static void smack_task_to_inode(struct t
>  	struct smack_known *skp = smk_of_task_struct(p);
>  
>  	isp->smk_inode = skp;
> +	isp->smk_flags |= SMK_INODE_INSTANT;
>  }
>  
>  /*
> 
> 
> 
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