linux-ext4 - Re: Wrapping Ext4 credential accesses

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Message-ID: <20081031141046.GB17651@mit.edu>
Date:	Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:10:46 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	adilger@....com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wrapping Ext4 credential accesses

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:47:16AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> 
> Can you add the attached patch into the ext4 tree please?  It wraps credential
> accesses (current->fsuid -> current_fsuid() for example) so that moving to a
> detached cred structure is easier.  The prerequisite patch has been upstream
> for a while.  Hopefully we can get Linus to take the rest of the patches in
> the next merge window.

Sure!  You're not looking for this to be merged before the next merge
window, correct?  So it will be Ok if I carry this patch and push this
at the next merge window?

								- Ted

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