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authorChristophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>2017-11-17 15:27:32 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-17 16:10:01 -0800
commit8c703d660450c4df72ff24f79a335dc7973a9dc8 (patch)
treee7eecbd614bbd2548d82ba66b5b28cb7e7840bf6
parent4ca59b14e588f873795a11cdc77a25c686a29d23 (diff)
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kernel/umh.c: optimize 'proc_cap_handler()'
If 'write' is 0, we can avoid a call to spin_lock/spin_unlock. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171020193331.7233-1-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/umh.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/umh.c b/kernel/umh.c
index 6ff9905250ff..18e5fa4b0e71 100644
--- a/kernel/umh.c
+++ b/kernel/umh.c
@@ -537,14 +537,14 @@ static int proc_cap_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
/*
* Drop everything not in the new_cap (but don't add things)
*/
- spin_lock(&umh_sysctl_lock);
if (write) {
+ spin_lock(&umh_sysctl_lock);
if (table->data == CAP_BSET)
usermodehelper_bset = cap_intersect(usermodehelper_bset, new_cap);
if (table->data == CAP_PI)
usermodehelper_inheritable = cap_intersect(usermodehelper_inheritable, new_cap);
+ spin_unlock(&umh_sysctl_lock);
}
- spin_unlock(&umh_sysctl_lock);
return 0;
}
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