linux-kernel - [PATCH] nfsd: silence sparse warning about accessing credentials

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:59:36 -0400
From:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...marydata.com>
To:	bfields@...ldses.org
Cc:	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] nfsd: silence sparse warning about accessing credentials

sparse says:

    fs/nfsd/auth.c:31:38: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
    fs/nfsd/auth.c:31:38:    expected struct cred const *cred
    fs/nfsd/auth.c:31:38:    got struct cred const [noderef] <asn:4>*real_cred

Add a new accessor for the ->real_cred and use that to fetch the
pointer. Accessing current->real_cred directly is actually quite safe
since we know that they can't go away so this is mostly a cosmetic fixup
to silence sparse.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...marydata.com>
---
 fs/nfsd/auth.c       | 2 +-
 include/linux/cred.h | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/auth.c b/fs/nfsd/auth.c
index 72f44823adbb..9d46a0bdd9f9 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/auth.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/auth.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ int nfsd_setuser(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_export *exp)
 	validate_process_creds();
 
 	/* discard any old override before preparing the new set */
-	revert_creds(get_cred(current->real_cred));
+	revert_creds(get_cred(current_real_cred()));
 	new = prepare_creds();
 	if (!new)
 		return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index f61d6c8f5ef3..b2d0820837c4 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
  *
-- 
1.9.3

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