Re: [rfc] fcntl: Add F_GETOWNER_UIDS option

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 03/28, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>
> If you want to
> just add the struct cred to the f_owner and do proper uid conversion,
> I'll support that too.  (Just grab a ref to the cred in
> fs/fcntl.c:f_modown(), and drop the ref in fs/file_table.c:__fput() ).

In this case f_owner.*uid should go away, I guess. And sigio_perm()
should be unified with kill_ok_by_cred() somehow (modulo
security_file_send_sigiotask).

Right?

Oleg.

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