linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 34/59] CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the JFS filesystem

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Message-Id: <1219847504.32515.1.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:31:44 -0500
From:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>,
	jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 34/59] CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the JFS
	filesystem

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 14:48 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
> the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.
> 
> Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().
> 
> Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id().  In some places it makes more
> sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
> addressed by later patches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>

Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

> Cc: jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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