On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 06:26:12PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 02:43:55PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote: > > The creds are allocated via prepare_kernel_cred() which has already > > taken a reference. > > > > Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c | 3 +-- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c > > index ec7a5598719397da5cadfed12a05ca8eb81e46a9..d102ab79c56dd7977465f7455749e6e7a2c9fba1 100644 > > --- a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c > > +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c > > @@ -3756,10 +3756,9 @@ static int __init target_core_init_configfs(void) > > ret = -ENOMEM; > > goto out; > > } > > - old_cred = override_creds(get_new_cred(kern_cred)); > > + old_cred = override_creds(kern_cred); > > target_init_dbroot(); > > put_cred(revert_creds(old_cred)); > > - put_cred(kern_cred); > > FWIW, I agree with Amir - > revert_creds(old_cred); > put_cred(kern_cred); Ok, done.