[PATCH v2 34/50] selinuxfs: new helper for attaching files to tree

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Wed Oct 29 10:51:04 AEDT 2025


On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> allocating dentry after the inode has been set up reduces the amount
> of boilerplate - "attach this inode under that name and this parent
> or drop inode in case of failure" simplifies quite a few places.
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> ---
>  security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 160 +++++++++++++++--------------------
>  1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)

Looks fine to me, thanks Al.  If for some reason the rest of the
patchset doesn't go anywhere, let me know and I can take this patch;
it seems like a nice improvement independent of the rest.

Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>

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