Re: [PATCH 1/1] file capabilities: clear fcaps on inode change (v2)

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting James Morris (jmorris@xxxxxxxxx):
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 
> > Shall I resend without the LSM_NEED_LOCK, or do you still want a more
> > fundamental change?
> 
> 
> Removing the needlock is enough, the rest was just a query/suggestion.

Ok - I'll explictly lock the i_mutex in
fs/splice.c:generic_file_splice_write().  The ugliness there is that
the mutex will always be taken - even if there is no xattr to be
removed or even if CONFIG_SECURITY=n.

I guess I'll do some perf runs and see what kind of impact that has.

thanks,
-serge
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