Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] selinux: update type for number of class permissions in services code

[Paul Moore]

On Aug  7, 2023 =?UTF-8?q?Christian=20G=C3=B6ttsche?= <cgzones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Security classes have only up to 32 permissions, hence using an u16 is
> sufficient (while improving padding in struct selinux_mapping).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v3:
>   - drop type change of arithmetic variable; it might effect performance
>     as suggested by David.
>   - split bogus and corrected cast into separate patch
> v2:
>    update commit description:
>      - mention struct selinux_mapping  in the padding argument
>        (currently between the first and second member there are 2 bytes
>         padding)
>      - mention overflow in the cast argument and the result of setting
>        no bits due to it
> ---
>  security/selinux/ss/services.c | 2 +-
>  security/selinux/ss/services.h | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Merged into selinux/next, thanks.

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