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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4] IMA: making i_readcount a first class inode citizen
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Would making i_readcount atomic be enough in ima_rdwr_violation_check(),
> or would it still need to take the spin_lock? IMA needs guarantees
> that the i_readcount/i_writecount won't be updated in between.

If i_writecount is always updated under the i_lock, then the fix is
probably to make that one non-atomic instead. There's no point in
having an atomic that is always updated under a spinlock, that just
makes everything slower.

Regardless, I don't think i_readcount should be different from i_writecount.

Al? Comments?

Linus


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