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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2008-11-14 00:39:16 +0100
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2008-11-14 00:39:16 +0100
commitb6dff3ec5e116e3af6f537d4caedcad6b9e5082a (patch)
tree9e76f972eb7ce9b84e0146c8e4126a3f86acb428 /fs/xfs/linux-2.6
parentCRED: Constify the kernel_cap_t arguments to the capset LSM hooks (diff)
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CRED: Separate task security context from task_struct
Separate the task security context from task_struct. At this point, the security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers pointing to it. Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in entry.S via asm-offsets. With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com> 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/linux-2.6')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_cred.h6
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_globals.h2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_cred.h b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_cred.h
index 293043a5573a..8c022cd0ad67 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_cred.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_cred.h
@@ -23,11 +23,9 @@
/*
* Credentials
*/
-typedef struct cred {
- /* EMPTY */
-} cred_t;
+typedef const struct cred cred_t;
-extern struct cred *sys_cred;
+extern cred_t *sys_cred;
/* this is a hack.. (assumes sys_cred is the only cred_t in the system) */
static inline int capable_cred(cred_t *cr, int cid)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_globals.h b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_globals.h
index 2770b0085ee8..6eda8a3eb6f1 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_globals.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_globals.h
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@
#define __XFS_GLOBALS_H__
extern uint64_t xfs_panic_mask; /* set to cause more panics */
-extern struct cred *sys_cred;
+extern cred_t *sys_cred;
#endif /* __XFS_GLOBALS_H__ */