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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2014-11-20 14:42:02 +0100
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2014-11-20 14:42:02 +0100
commita02001086bbfb4da35d1228bebc2f1b442db455f (patch)
tree62ab47936cef06fd08657ca5b6cd1df98c19be57 /include/linux/cred.h
parenteff264efeeb0898408e8c9df72d8a32621035bed (diff)
parentfc14f9c1272f62c3e8d01300f52467c0d9af50f9 (diff)
Merge Linus' tree to be be to apply submitted patches to newer code than
current trivial.git base
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/cred.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/cred.h9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index f61d6c8f5ef..b2d0820837c 100644
--- a/include/linux/cred.h
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -259,6 +259,15 @@ static inline void put_cred(const struct cred *_cred)
rcu_dereference_protected(current->cred, 1)
/**
+ * current_real_cred - Access the current task's objective credentials
+ *
+ * Access the objective credentials of the current task. RCU-safe,
+ * since nobody else can modify it.
+ */
+#define current_real_cred() \
+ rcu_dereference_protected(current->real_cred, 1)
+
+/**
* __task_cred - Access a task's objective credentials
* @task: The task to query
*