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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 3/9] security: define security_kernel_read_blob() wrapper
On Thu, 17 May 2018, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
>
> Nack on this sharing nonsense. These two interfaces do not share any
> code in their implementations other than the if statement to distinguish
> between the two cases.

Hmm, it's not even doing that.

There's already an if(!file && read_id == X) { } check and this is another
one being added.

> If we want comprehensible and maintainable code in the security modules
> we need to split these two pieces of functionality apart.

All ima_read is doing in both the old and new case is checking if there's
no file then if it's a certain operation, returning an error.

To echo Eric and Casey's suggestions, how about changing the name of the
hook to security_kernel_read_data() ?

Then ima_read_file() can be changed to ima_read_data(), and then instead
of two if (!file && read_id == X) checks, have:

if (!file) {
switch (read_id) {
}
}




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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>

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