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Subject[PATCH v6 03/10] audit: no need to walk list in audit_inode if name is NULL
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If name is NULL then the condition in the loop will never be true. Also,
with this change, we can eliminate the check for n->name == NULL since
the equivalence check will never be true if it is.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
---
kernel/auditsc.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 5c45b9b..4099440 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -2161,11 +2161,15 @@ void __audit_inode(const char *name, const struct dentry *dentry)
if (!context->in_syscall)
return;

+ if (!name)
+ goto out_alloc;
+
list_for_each_entry_reverse(n, &context->names_list, list) {
- if (n->name && (n->name == name))
+ if (n->name == name)
goto out;
}

+out_alloc:
/* unable to find the name from a previous getname() */
n = audit_alloc_name(context);
if (!n)
--
1.7.11.4


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