PATCH [1/1]: audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead
David Howells
dhowells at redhat.com
Tue Mar 15 20:04:47 UTC 2011
Tony Jones <tonyj at suse.de> wrote:
> Agree. Also I believe it is safe to use tsk->cred directly as tsk == current
> or tsk is being created by copy_process.
You can't quite access it like that without sparse throwing a warning. The
pointer is marked with an __rcu attribute, so you need to use something like
this:
cred = rcu_dereference_check(tsk->cred, (tsk == current ||
called_from_copy_process());
David
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