[REVIEW][PATCH 01/11] sem/security: Pass kern_ipc_perm not sem_array into the sem security hooks

Davidlohr Bueso dave at stgolabs.net
Wed Mar 28 23:20:29 UTC 2018


On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, Casey Schaufler wrote:

>A kern_ipc_perm pointer is conventionally named isp in this code.

So the ideal name would be ipcp, used in core ipc, but I have no strong
preference over isp, ipp or whatever other name is used in LSMs. The
important thing is that kern_ipc_perm should not be called sma or any
ipc specific name.

>How about instead:

Agreed.

>
>-static int smack_sem_alloc_security(struct sem_array *sma)
>+static int smack_sem_alloc_security(struct kern_ipc_perm *isp)
> {
>-	struct kern_ipc_perm *isp = &sma->sem_perm;
>

Thanks,
Davidlohr
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