Re: [Linux-ima-user] IMA code question

[Mimi Z. <zo...@li...>]

On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 11:04 +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> i have a question about the code of the ima_path_check() function located in 
> the file security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c of the kernel sources, version 
> 2.6.31.6.
> 
> I see at some point the functions dget, mntget are called but i've not found 
> the correspondent dput and mntput used to decrease the reference counts 
> respectively for the dentry and vfsmount structure. There is a reason for that 
> or these functions are missing?
> 
> Thanks for replies

On dentry_open() failure, dentry_open() decrements the counters. On
success, fput, at the bottom of the function, decrements the counters.

Mimi