[PATCH 1/5] xattr: Complete constify ->name member of "struct xattr"

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel at i-love.sakura.ne.jp
Thu Apr 15 11:20:15 UTC 2021


On 2021/04/15 19:04, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> This patch completes commit 9548906b2bb7 ('xattr: Constify ->name member of
> "struct xattr"'). It fixes the documentation of the inode_init_security
> hook, by removing the xattr name from the objects that are expected to be
> allocated by LSMs (only the value is allocated). Also, it removes the
> kfree() of name and setting it to NULL in the reiserfs code.

Good catch, but well, grep does not find any reiserfs_security_free() callers.
Is reiserfs_security_free() a dead code?



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