Any cred that is destined for use by commit_creds must have a non-NULL cred->ucounts field. Only curing credential construction is a NULL cred->ucounts valid. Only abort_creds, put_cred, and put_cred_rcu needs to deal with a cred with a NULL ucount. As set_cred_ucounts is non of those case don't confuse people by handling something that can not happen. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cred.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c index 1ae0b4948a5a..473d17c431f3 100644 --- a/kernel/cred.c +++ b/kernel/cred.c @@ -676,15 +676,14 @@ int set_cred_ucounts(struct cred *new) * This optimization is needed because alloc_ucounts() uses locks * for table lookups. */ - if (old_ucounts && old_ucounts->ns == new->user_ns && uid_eq(old_ucounts->uid, new->euid)) + if (old_ucounts->ns == new->user_ns && uid_eq(old_ucounts->uid, new->euid)) return 0; if (!(new_ucounts = alloc_ucounts(new->user_ns, new->euid))) return -EAGAIN; new->ucounts = new_ucounts; - if (old_ucounts) - put_ucounts(old_ucounts); + put_ucounts(old_ucounts); return 0; } -- 2.20.1
