It's not possible for inode->i_security to be NULL here because every
inode will call inode_init_always and then lsm_inode_alloc to alloc
memory for inode->security, this is what LSM infrastructure management
do, so remove this redundant code.
Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 7 -------
1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
index 6207762dbdb1..001831458fa2 100644
--- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
+++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
@@ -766,13 +766,6 @@ static int smack_set_mnt_opts(struct super_block *sb,
if (sp->smk_flags & SMK_SB_INITIALIZED)
return 0;
- if (inode->i_security == NULL) {
- int rc = lsm_inode_alloc(inode);
-
- if (rc)
- return rc;
- }
-
if (!smack_privileged(CAP_MAC_ADMIN)) {
/*
* Unprivileged mounts don't get to specify Smack values.