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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2011-09-15 15:08:05 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2011-09-15 15:08:18 +0200
commite060c38434b2caa78efe7cedaff4191040b65a15 (patch)
tree407361230bf6733f63d8e788e4b5e6566ee04818 /include/linux/cred.h
parent10e4ac572eeffe5317019bd7330b6058a400dfc2 (diff)
parentcc39c6a9bbdebfcf1a7dee64d83bf302bc38d941 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Fast-forward merge with Linus to be able to merge patches based on more recent version of the tree.
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/cred.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/cred.h17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index f240f2fa019..40308969ed0 100644
--- a/include/linux/cred.h
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/key.h>
#include <linux/selinux.h>
-#include <asm/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/atomic.h>
struct user_struct;
struct cred;
@@ -265,10 +265,11 @@ static inline void put_cred(const struct cred *_cred)
/**
* current_cred - Access the current task's subjective credentials
*
- * Access the subjective credentials of the current task.
+ * Access the subjective credentials of the current task. RCU-safe,
+ * since nobody else can modify it.
*/
#define current_cred() \
- (current->cred)
+ rcu_dereference_protected(current->cred, 1)
/**
* __task_cred - Access a task's objective credentials
@@ -306,8 +307,8 @@ static inline void put_cred(const struct cred *_cred)
#define get_current_user() \
({ \
struct user_struct *__u; \
- struct cred *__cred; \
- __cred = (struct cred *) current_cred(); \
+ const struct cred *__cred; \
+ __cred = current_cred(); \
__u = get_uid(__cred->user); \
__u; \
})
@@ -321,8 +322,8 @@ static inline void put_cred(const struct cred *_cred)
#define get_current_groups() \
({ \
struct group_info *__groups; \
- struct cred *__cred; \
- __cred = (struct cred *) current_cred(); \
+ const struct cred *__cred; \
+ __cred = current_cred(); \
__groups = get_group_info(__cred->group_info); \
__groups; \
})
@@ -341,7 +342,7 @@ static inline void put_cred(const struct cred *_cred)
#define current_cred_xxx(xxx) \
({ \
- current->cred->xxx; \
+ current_cred()->xxx; \
})
#define current_uid() (current_cred_xxx(uid))