Re: [PATCH] selinux: reorder inode_security_struct to increaseobjs/slab on 64bit

[Stephen Smalley]

On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 12:32 +0100, Richard Kennedy wrote:
> reorder inode_security_struct to remove padding on 64 bit builds
>     
> size reduced from 72 to 64 bytes increasing objects per slab to 64.
>         
> Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> This patch is against 2.6.26-r2 & boots successfully on my AMD64
> desktop.
> 
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> diff --git a/security/selinux/include/objsec.h b/security/selinux/include/objsec.h
> index 032c235..5f0be19 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/include/objsec.h
> +++ b/security/selinux/include/objsec.h
> @@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ struct inode_security_struct {
>  	u32 sid;		/* SID of this object */
>  	u16 sclass;		/* security class of this object */
>  	unsigned char initialized;	/* initialization flag */
> -	struct mutex lock;
>  	unsigned char inherit;	/* inherit SID from parent entry */

Let's just drop inherit altogether - dead field.

> +	struct mutex lock;
>  };
>  
>  struct file_security_struct {
> 
-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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