Re: [PATCH] SELinux: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference inselinux_inode_permission()

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 11:05:45AM -0500, Eric Paris wrote:
> [adding lsm and selinux]
> 
> Am I just crazy, or was this bug discussed (and obviously not fixed)
> some time ago?
> 
> VFS can still use inodes after security_inode_free_security() was
> called...

Unrelated bug.

> > Assuming the VFS guys say that delaying __destroy_inode() is safe like
> > that, I like it better.  It also means that this is fixed for all LSMs,
> > not just SELinux...

Recall what your own code called from __destroy_inode() (fsnotify horrors)
is doing - you can't grab a mutex from RCU callback...
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