On 01/31/2018 12:15 AM, NeilBrown wrote: > Hi, > NFS and SUNRPC have an internal "rpc_cred" which plays two distinct > roles, one of which is much the same as 'struct cred' (which didn't > exist when rpc_cred was created). > I want to replace that usage of rpc_cred with 'struct cred'. > Doing so requires some minor improvements to cred.c and cred.h as > follows. > > It isn't clear to me who "maintains" cred.c and cred.h, so I'm hoping > that Andrew Morton will take these (if no-one complains). > Alternately if I got one or two credible "Acked-by"s, they could go > upstream through the NFS tree when the rest of the patches are ready. Neil sent these patches out a while ago, and I haven't heard any acks for them yet. Does anybody have a problem with me taking them through the NFS tree for 4.17? Anna > > Thanks, > NeilBrown > > > --- > > NeilBrown (4): > cred: add cred_fscmp() for comparing creds. > cred: add get_cred_rcu() > cred: export get_task_cred(). > cred: allow get_cred() and put_cred() to be given NULL. > > > include/linux/cred.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++---- > kernel/cred.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > 2 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > -- > Signature > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
