Re: [PATCH -next] audit: Use list_move instead of list_del/list_add

From: Richard Guy Briggs
Date: Tue Jun 08 2021 - 11:02:25 EST


On 2021-06-08 11:11, Baokun Li wrote:
> Using list_move() instead of list_del() + list_add().

This should be slightly more efficient since there is no need to poison
the pointers.

> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> kernel/audit_tree.c | 12 ++++--------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/audit_tree.c b/kernel/audit_tree.c
> index 6c91902f4f45..b2be4e978ba3 100644
> --- a/kernel/audit_tree.c
> +++ b/kernel/audit_tree.c
> @@ -689,8 +689,7 @@ void audit_trim_trees(void)
>
> tree = container_of(cursor.next, struct audit_tree, list);
> get_tree(tree);
> - list_del(&cursor);
> - list_add(&cursor, &tree->list);
> + list_move(&cursor, &tree->list);
> mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex);
>
> err = kern_path(tree->pathname, 0, &path);
> @@ -899,8 +898,7 @@ int audit_tag_tree(char *old, char *new)
>
> tree = container_of(cursor.next, struct audit_tree, list);
> get_tree(tree);
> - list_del(&cursor);
> - list_add(&cursor, &tree->list);
> + list_move(&cursor, &tree->list);
> mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex);
>
> err = kern_path(tree->pathname, 0, &path2);
> @@ -925,8 +923,7 @@ int audit_tag_tree(char *old, char *new)
> mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex);
> spin_lock(&hash_lock);
> if (!tree->goner) {
> - list_del(&tree->list);
> - list_add(&tree->list, &tree_list);
> + list_move(&tree->list, &tree_list);
> }
> spin_unlock(&hash_lock);
> put_tree(tree);
> @@ -937,8 +934,7 @@ int audit_tag_tree(char *old, char *new)
>
> tree = container_of(barrier.prev, struct audit_tree, list);
> get_tree(tree);
> - list_del(&tree->list);
> - list_add(&tree->list, &barrier);
> + list_move(&tree->list, &barrier);
> mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex);
>
> if (!failed) {
>
>
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- RGB

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