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@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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); -- 2.45.2
