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    smack: Initialize the in-memory inode in smack_inode_init_security() · e63d86b8
    Roberto Sassu authored
    Currently, Smack initializes in-memory new inodes in three steps. It first
    sets the xattrs in smack_inode_init_security(), fetches them in
    smack_d_instantiate() and finally, in the same function, sets the in-memory
    inodes depending on xattr values, unless they are in specially-handled
    filesystems.
    
    Other than being inefficient, this also prevents filesystems not supporting
    xattrs from working properly since, without xattrs, there is no way to pass
    the label determined in smack_inode_init_security() to
    smack_d_instantiate().
    
    Since the LSM infrastructure allows setting and getting the security field
    without xattrs through the inode_setsecurity and inode_getsecurity hooks,
    make the inode creation work too, by initializing the in-memory inode
    earlier in smack_inode_init_security().
    
    Also mark the inode as instantiated, to prevent smack_d_instantiate() from
    overwriting the security field. As mentioned above, this potentially has
    impact for inodes in specially-handled filesystems in
    smack_d_instantiate(), if they are not handled in the same way in
    smack_inode_init_security().
    
    Filesystems other than tmpfs don't call security_inode_init_security(), so
    they would be always initialized in smack_d_instantiate(), as before. For
    tmpfs, the current behavior is to assign to inodes the label '*', but
    actually that label is overwritten with the one fetched from the SMACK64
    xattr, set in smack_inode_init_security() (default: '_').
    
    Initializing the in-memory inode is straightforward: if not transmuting,
    nothing more needs to be done; if transmuting, overwrite the current inode
    label with the one from the parent directory, and set SMK_INODE_TRANSMUTE.
    Finally, set SMK_INODE_INSTANT for all cases, to mark the inode as
    instantiated.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRoberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCasey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
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