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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2008-11-14 00:39:19 +0100
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2008-11-14 00:39:19 +0100
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parentCRED: Wrap current->cred and a few other accessors (diff)
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CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds
Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds. This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b) seeing deallocated memory. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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