linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/59] CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the PowerPC arch

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Message-Id: <1219880733.13162.220.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:45:33 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/59] CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the
	PowerPC arch

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 14:46 +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>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
> ---

Ack.

Ben.


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