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[08/26] sev-dev: avoid pointless cred reference count bump

Message ID	20241124-work-cred-v1-8-f352241c3970@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
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Headers	show Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D27F7209667; Sun, 24 Nov 2024 13:44:32 +0000 (UTC) From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 08/26] sev-dev: avoid pointless cred reference count bump Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 14:43:54 +0100 Message-ID: <20241124-work-cred-v1-8-f352241c3970@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20241124-work-cred-v1-0-f352241c3970@kernel.org> References: <20241124-work-cred-v1-0-f352241c3970@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Series	[01/26] tree-wide: s/override_creds()/override_creds_light(get_new_cred())/g \| expand [01/26] tree-wide: s/override_creds()/override_creds_light(get_new_cred())/g [02/26] cred: return old creds from revert_creds_light() [03/26] tree-wide: s/revert_creds()/put_cred(revert_creds_light())/g [04/26] cred: remove old {override,revert}_creds() helpers [05/26] tree-wide: s/override_creds_light()/override_creds()/g [06/26] tree-wide: s/revert_creds_light()/revert_creds()/g [07/26] firmware: avoid pointless reference count bump [08/26] sev-dev: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [09/26] target_core_configfs: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [10/26] aio: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [11/26] binfmt_misc: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [12/26] coredump: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [13/26] nfs/localio: avoid pointless cred reference count bumps [14/26] nfs/nfs4idmap: avoid pointless reference count bump [15/26] nfs/nfs4recover: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [16/26] nfsfh: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [17/26] open: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [18/26] ovl: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [19/26] cifs: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [20/26] cifs: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [21/26] smb: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [22/26] io_uring: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [23/26] acct: avoid pointless reference count bump [24/26] cgroup: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [25/26] trace: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [26/26] dns_resolver: avoid pointless cred reference count bump

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Christian Brauner Nov. 24, 2024, 1:43 p.m. UTC

and fix a memory leak while at it. The new creds are created via
prepare_creds() and then reverted via put_cred(revert_creds()). The
additional reference count bump from override_creds() wasn't even taken
into account before.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c b/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
index 187c34b02442dd50640f88713bc5f6f88a1990f4..2e87ca0e292a1c1706a8e878285159b481b68a6f 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@  static struct file *open_file_as_root(const char *filename, int flags, umode_t m
 	if (!cred)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	cred->fsuid = GLOBAL_ROOT_UID;
-	old_cred = override_creds(get_new_cred(cred));
+	old_cred = override_creds(cred);
 
 	fp = file_open_root(&root, filename, flags, mode);
 	path_put(&root);