From c69e8d9c01db2adc503464993c358901c9af9de4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:39:19 +1100 Subject: CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds. This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b) seeing deallocated memory. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: James Morris Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: James Morris --- include/linux/cred.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/cred.h') diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h index 4221ec6000c1..166ce4ddba64 100644 --- a/include/linux/cred.h +++ b/include/linux/cred.h @@ -147,8 +147,9 @@ static inline struct cred *get_cred(struct cred *cred) * Release a reference to a set of credentials, deleting them when the last ref * is released. */ -static inline void put_cred(struct cred *cred) +static inline void put_cred(const struct cred *_cred) { + struct cred *cred = (struct cred *) _cred; if (atomic_dec_and_test(&(cred)->usage)) __put_cred(cred); } -- cgit v1.2.3