Re: [PATCH 1/2] selinux: simple cleanup for cond_read_node()
From: Stephen Smalley
Date: Thu Jun 19 2014 - 08:04:20 EST
On 06/18/2014 03:36 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Sunday, June 15, 2014 01:19:01 AM Namhyung Kim wrote:
>> The node->cur_state and len can be read in a single call of next_entry().
>> And setting len before reading is a dead write so can be eliminated.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> security/selinux/ss/conditional.c | 9 ++-------
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
>> b/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c index 377d148e7157..4766a38fae9a 100644
>> --- a/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
>> +++ b/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
>> @@ -402,19 +402,14 @@ static int cond_read_node(struct policydb *p, struct
>> cond_node *node, void *fp) int rc;
>> struct cond_expr *expr = NULL, *last = NULL;
>>
>> - rc = next_entry(buf, fp, sizeof(u32));
>> + rc = next_entry(buf, fp, sizeof(buf));
>
> This is a bit nit-picky, but how about using "sizeof(u32) * 2"? It is more
> consistent with the rest of the function and helps underscore that we are
Concur - I don't want to assume that the buf size is always the same as
the next read size (e.g. we sometimes use the same buf for multiple reads).
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