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[v2,02/29] cred: return old creds from revert_creds_light()

Message ID	20241125-work-cred-v2-2-68b9d38bb5b2@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
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Series	cred: rework {override,revert}_creds() \| expand [v2,00/29] cred: rework {override,revert}_creds() [v2,01/29] tree-wide: s/override_creds()/override_creds_light(get_new_cred())/g [v2,02/29] cred: return old creds from revert_creds_light() [v2,03/29] tree-wide: s/revert_creds()/put_cred(revert_creds_light())/g [v2,04/29] cred: remove old {override,revert}_creds() helpers [v2,05/29] tree-wide: s/override_creds_light()/override_creds()/g [v2,06/29] tree-wide: s/revert_creds_light()/revert_creds()/g [v2,07/29] firmware: avoid pointless reference count bump [v2,08/29] sev-dev: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,09/29] target_core_configfs: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,10/29] aio: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,11/29] binfmt_misc: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,12/29] coredump: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,13/29] nfs/localio: avoid pointless cred reference count bumps [v2,14/29] nfs/nfs4idmap: avoid pointless reference count bump [v2,15/29] nfs/nfs4recover: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,16/29] nfsfh: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,17/29] open: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,18/29] ovl: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,19/29] cifs: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,20/29] cifs: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,21/29] smb: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,22/29] io_uring: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,23/29] acct: avoid pointless reference count bump [v2,24/29] cgroup: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,25/29] trace: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,26/29] dns_resolver: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,27/29] cachefiles: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,28/29] nfsd: avoid pointless cred reference count bump [v2,29/29] cred: remove unused get_new_cred()

Commit Message

Christian Brauner Nov. 25, 2024, 2:09 p.m. UTC

So we can easily convert revert_creds() callers over to drop the
reference count explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/cred.h | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index b0bc1fea9ca05a26f4fa719f1d4701f010994288..57cf0256ea292b6c981238573658094649c4757a 100644
--- a/include/linux/cred.h
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -185,9 +185,12 @@  static inline const struct cred *override_creds_light(const struct cred *overrid
 	return old;
 }
 
-static inline void revert_creds_light(const struct cred *revert_cred)
+static inline const struct cred *revert_creds_light(const struct cred *revert_cred)
 {
+	const struct cred *override_cred = current->cred;
+
 	rcu_assign_pointer(current->cred, revert_cred);
+	return override_cred;
 }
 
 /**