what's going on with aa_destroy_aafs() call in apparmor_init()?

Al Viro viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk
Sun Sep 21 07:36:55 UTC 2025


	Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can tell apparmor_init()
ends up being called from security_init(), which is called before the call
of vfs_caches_init(), not to mention fs_initcall stuff.

	If that's the case, what is this doing there?
error:
        aa_destroy_aafs();
	AA_ERROR("Error creating AppArmor securityfs\n");
	return error;

aa_create_aafs() is called via fs_initcall; moreover, it will bail out
if called before apparmor_initialized has become true, so...

While we are at it, what will happen if apparmor_init() succeeds, but
aa_create_fs() fails afterwards?

If nothing else, aa_null_path will be left {NULL, NULL}, which will
immediately oops dentry_open() in aa_inherit_files()...



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