linux-kernel - [PATCH] shift current_cred() from __f_setown() to f

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Message-ID: <20090616200746.GA28663@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:07:46 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>, solar@...nwall.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] shift current_cred() from __f_setown() to f_modown()

Shift current_cred() from __f_setown() to f_modown(). This reduces
the number of arguments and saves 48 bytes from fs/fcntl.o.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

--- a/fs/fcntl.c~f_modown	2009-04-06 00:03:41.000000000 +0200
+++ b/fs/fcntl.c	2009-06-16 21:41:18.000000000 +0200
@@ -196,15 +196,19 @@ static int setfl(int fd, struct file * f
 }
 
 static void f_modown(struct file *filp, struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type,
-                     uid_t uid, uid_t euid, int force)
+                     int force)
 {
 	write_lock_irq(&filp->f_owner.lock);
 	if (force || !filp->f_owner.pid) {
 		put_pid(filp->f_owner.pid);
 		filp->f_owner.pid = get_pid(pid);
 		filp->f_owner.pid_type = type;
-		filp->f_owner.uid = uid;
-		filp->f_owner.euid = euid;
+
+		if (pid) {
+			const struct cred *cred = current_cred();
+			filp->f_owner.uid = cred->uid;
+			filp->f_owner.euid = cred->euid;
+		}
 	}
 	write_unlock_irq(&filp->f_owner.lock);
 }
@@ -212,14 +216,13 @@ static void f_modown(struct file *filp, 
 int __f_setown(struct file *filp, struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type,
 		int force)
 {
-	const struct cred *cred = current_cred();
 	int err;
-	
+
 	err = security_file_set_fowner(filp);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	f_modown(filp, pid, type, cred->uid, cred->euid, force);
+	f_modown(filp, pid, type, force);
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__f_setown);
@@ -245,7 +248,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(f_setown);
 
 void f_delown(struct file *filp)
 {
-	f_modown(filp, NULL, PIDTYPE_PID, 0, 0, 1);
+	f_modown(filp, NULL, PIDTYPE_PID, 1);
 }
 
 pid_t f_getown(struct file *filp)

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