The patch titled
cred: delete alloc_creds() as it's not used
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
cred-delete-alloc_creds-as-its-not-used.patch
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Subject: cred: delete alloc_creds() as it's not used
From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Delete alloc_creds() as it's not used.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/cred-internals.h | 5 -----
kernel/cred.c | 15 ---------------
2 files changed, 20 deletions(-)
diff -puN kernel/cred-internals.h~cred-delete-alloc_creds-as-its-not-used kernel/cred-internals.h
--- a/kernel/cred-internals.h~cred-delete-alloc_creds-as-its-not-used
+++ a/kernel/cred-internals.h
@@ -10,11 +10,6 @@
*/
/*
- * cred.c
- */
-extern struct cred *alloc_creds(const struct cred *, gfp_t);
-
-/*
* user.c
*/
static inline void sched_switch_user(struct task_struct *p)
diff -puN kernel/cred.c~cred-delete-alloc_creds-as-its-not-used kernel/cred.c
--- a/kernel/cred.c~cred-delete-alloc_creds-as-its-not-used
+++ a/kernel/cred.c
@@ -112,21 +112,6 @@ void __put_cred(struct cred *cred)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__put_cred);
-/*
- * Allocate new credentials
- */
-struct cred *alloc_creds(const struct cred *old, gfp_t gfp)
-{
- struct cred *new;
-
- new = kmem_cache_alloc(cred_jar, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!new)
- return NULL;
- if (old)
- memcpy(new, old, sizeof(struct cred));
- return new;
-}
-
/**
* prepare_creds - Prepare a new set of credentials for modification
*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
cifs-fix-range-check.patch
fix-cred-wrap-current-cred-and-a-few-other-accessors-on-mips.patch
cred-delete-alloc_creds-as-its-not-used.patch
uclinux-fix-gzip-header-parsing-in-binfmt_flatc.patch
autofs4-add-miscellaneous-device-for-ioctls-fix-fix-3.patch
binfmt_elf_fdpic-support-auxvec-base-platform-string.patch
binfmt_elf_fdpic-convert-initial-stack-alignment-to-arch_align_stack.patch
binfmt_elf_fdpic-wire-up-at_execfd-at_execfn-at_secure.patch
sysctl-simplify-strategy.patch
mn10300-use-bcd2bin-bin2bcd.patch
mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch
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