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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ashwin Ganti <ashwin.ganti@gmail.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	rsc@swtch.com, ericvh@gmail.com,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	Ron Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>,
	jt.beard@gmail.com, Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Kyle Moffett <kyle@moffetthome.net>,
	Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] p9auth: split core function out of some set*{u,g}id functions
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 15:52:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3976.1272984739@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100427164245.GA7530@us.ibm.com>

Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Break the core functionality of set{fs,res}{u,g}id into cred_setX
> which performs the access checks based on current_cred(), but performs
> the requested change on a passed-in cred.
> 
> Export the helpers, since p9auth can be compiled as a module.  It
> might be worth not allowing modular p9auth to avoid having to export
> them.
> 
> Really the setfs{u,g}id helper isn't needed, but move it as
> well to keep the code consistent.
> 
> This patch also changes set_user() to use new->user->user_ns.  While
> technically not needed as all callers should have new->user->user_ns
> equal to current_userns(), it is more correct and may prevent surprises
> in the future.
> 
> Changelog:
> 	Apr 24: (David Howells) make cred_setresuid etc extern, and
> 		document the helpers in Documentation/credentials.txt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-04 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-27 16:41 [PATCH 0/3] p9auth fs: introduction Serge E. Hallyn
2010-04-27 16:42 ` [PATCH 1/3] p9auth: split core function out of some set*{u,g}id functions Serge E. Hallyn
2010-05-04 14:52   ` David Howells [this message]
2010-04-27 16:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] p9auth: add CAP_GRANT_ID to authorize use of /dev/caphash Serge E. Hallyn
2010-04-27 16:45 ` [PATCH 3/3] RFC: p9auth: add p9auth fs Serge E. Hallyn
2010-04-28 11:17   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-28 15:10     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-04-28 15:39       ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-03 23:50         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-05-04 14:57   ` David Howells
2010-05-04 15:14     ` Serge E. Hallyn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-04-21  1:27 [PATCH 1/3] p9auth: split core function out of some set*{u,g}id functions Serge E. Hallyn
2010-04-21 10:46 ` David Howells
2010-04-21 13:40   ` Serge E. Hallyn

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