Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix IMA lockdep circular locking dependency

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If the security_file_mmap() moves to before taking the mmap_sem and the
> new security_mmap_addr() hook would be at the current
> security_file_mmap() location, I don't see the problem.  The addr test
> would remain in the same place.

Btw, please do change the name at the same time, so that the new
"file" testing function is "security_mmap_file()". That way a grep
shows any stale cases, rather than having to look at the exact
arguments (it does lose the last argument too).

                   Linus
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