Re: [md PATCH 0/4] Minor 'cred' improvements prepare for NFS conversion

From: Anna Schumaker
Date: Wed Mar 21 2018 - 10:50:11 EST




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(-)
>
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> Signature
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