Re: [PATCH] kernel: user_namespace: always set the return parameter 'new_cred' when call unshare_userns() successfully.

[Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>]

Quoting Chen Gang (gang.chen@asianux.com):
> When unshare_userns() succeed, recommend to always set the return
> parameter which may be used by caller.
> 
> The caller has rights to call it with 'new_cred' uninitialized, if
> succeed, the caller can assume the 'new_cred' has been initialized.

But the only existing caller (sys_unshare) does in fact initialize it to
NULL.  So while this patch does no harm, is it necessary?

> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/user_namespace.h |    1 +
>  kernel/user_namespace.c        |    4 +++-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/user_namespace.h b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
> index b6b215f..3159af5 100644
> --- a/include/linux/user_namespace.h
> +++ b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
> @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ static inline int unshare_userns(unsigned long unshare_flags,
>  {
>  	if (unshare_flags & CLONE_NEWUSER)
>  		return -EINVAL;
> +	*new_cred = NULL;
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
> index 6e50a44..6b90818 100644
> --- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
> +++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
> @@ -107,8 +107,10 @@ int unshare_userns(unsigned long unshare_flags, struct cred **new_cred)
>  	struct cred *cred;
>  	int err = -ENOMEM;
>  
> -	if (!(unshare_flags & CLONE_NEWUSER))
> +	if (!(unshare_flags & CLONE_NEWUSER)) {
> +		*new_cred = NULL;
>  		return 0;
> +	}
>  
>  	cred = prepare_creds();
>  	if (cred) {
> -- 
> 1.7.7.6