The creds are allocated via prepare_creds() which has already taken a reference. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/coredump.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c index 0d3a65cac546db6710eb1337b0a9c4ec0ffff679..d48edb37bc35c0896d97a2f6a6cc259d8812f936 100644 --- a/fs/coredump.c +++ b/fs/coredump.c @@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ void do_coredump(const kernel_siginfo_t *siginfo) if (retval < 0) goto fail_creds; - old_cred = override_creds(get_new_cred(cred)); + old_cred = override_creds(cred); ispipe = format_corename(&cn, &cprm, &argv, &argc); @@ -781,7 +781,7 @@ void do_coredump(const kernel_siginfo_t *siginfo) kfree(argv); kfree(cn.corename); coredump_finish(core_dumped); - put_cred(revert_creds(old_cred)); + revert_creds(old_cred); fail_creds: put_cred(cred); fail: -- 2.45.2