[PATCH 6.13 114/207] cred: return old creds from revert_creds_light()

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6.13-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 95c54bc81791c210b131f2b1013942487e74896f ]

So we can easily convert revert_creds() callers over to drop the
reference count explicitly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241125-work-cred-v2-2-68b9d38bb5b2@xxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Stable-dep-of: e04918dc5946 ("cred: Fix RCU warnings in override/revert_creds")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/cred.h | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index e4a3155fe409d..382768a9707b5 100644
--- a/include/linux/cred.h
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -185,9 +185,12 @@ static inline const struct cred *override_creds_light(const struct cred *overrid
 	return old;
 }
 
-static inline void revert_creds_light(const struct cred *revert_cred)
+static inline const struct cred *revert_creds_light(const struct cred *revert_cred)
 {
+	const struct cred *override_cred = current->cred;
+
 	rcu_assign_pointer(current->cred, revert_cred);
+	return override_cred;
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.39.5







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