Re: [PATCH v2 00/29] cred: rework {override,revert}_creds()

Jens Axboe
2024-11-27T02:03:45Z

On 11/25/24 7:09 AM, Christian Brauner wrote:
> For the v6.13 cycle we switched overlayfs to a variant of
> override_creds() that doesn't take an extra reference. To this end I
> suggested introducing {override,revert}_creds_light() which overlayfs
> could use.
>
> This seems to work rather well. This series follow Linus advice and
> unifies the separate helpers and simply makes {override,revert}_creds()
> do what {override,revert}_creds_light() currently does. Caller's that
> really need the extra reference count can take it manually.

Nice cleanup, looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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