Currently, applications that wish to access security descriptors have to
explicitly open the volume's security descriptor index ("$Secure") using
ntfs_open_secure(). Applications are also responsible for closing the
index when done with it. However, the cleanup function for doing,
ntfs_close_secure(), cannot be called easily by all applications because
it requires a SECURITY_CONTEXT argument, not simply the ntfs_volume.
Some applications therefore have to close the inode and index contexts
manually in order to clean up properly.
This proposal updates libntfs-3g to open $Secure unconditonally as part
of ntfs_mount(), so that applications do not have to worry about it.
This proposal updates libntfs-3g to open $Secure unconditonally as part
of ntfs_mount(), so that applications do not have to worry about it.
ntfs_close_secure() is updated to take in a ntfs_volume for internal use,
and ntfs_destroy_security_context() is now the function to call to free
memory associated with a SECURITY_CONTEXT rather than a ntfs_volume.
Some memory leaks in error paths of ntfs_open_secure() are also fixed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
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