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Merge tag 'kernel-6.19-rc1.cred' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull cred guard updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains substantial credential infrastructure improvements
adding guard-based credential management that simplifies code and
eliminates manual reference counting in many subsystems.
Features:
- Kernel Credential Guards
Add with_kernel_creds() and scoped_with_kernel_creds() guards that
allow using the kernel credentials without allocating and copying
them. This was requested by Linus after seeing repeated
prepare_kernel_creds() calls that duplicate the kernel credentials
only to drop them again later.
The new guards completely avoid the allocation and never expose the
temporary variable to hold the kernel credentials anywhere in
callers.
- Generic Credential Guards
Add scoped_with_creds() guards for the common override_creds() and
revert_creds() pattern. This builds on earlier work that made
override_creds()/revert_creds() completely reference count free.
- Prepare Credential Guards
Add prepare credential guards for the more complex pattern of
preparing a new set of credentials and overriding the current
credentials with them:
- prepare_creds()
- modify new creds
- override_creds()
- revert_creds()
- put_cred()
Cleanups:
- Make init_cred static since it should not be directly accessed
- Add kernel_cred() helper to properly access the kernel credentials
- Fix scoped_class() macro that was introduced two cycles ago
- coredump: split out do_coredump() from vfs_coredump() for cleaner
credential handling
- coredump: move revert_cred() before coredump_cleanup()
- coredump: mark struct mm_struct as const
- coredump: pass struct linux_binfmt as const
- sev-dev: use guard for path"
* tag 'kernel-6.19-rc1.cred' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (36 commits)
trace: use override credential guard
trace: use prepare credential guard
coredump: use override credential guard
coredump: use prepare credential guard
coredump: split out do_coredump() from vfs_coredump()
coredump: mark struct mm_struct as const
coredump: pass struct linux_binfmt as const
coredump: move revert_cred() before coredump_cleanup()
sev-dev: use override credential guards
sev-dev: use prepare credential guard
sev-dev: use guard for path
cred: add prepare credential guard
net/dns_resolver: use credential guards in dns_query()
cgroup: use credential guards in cgroup_attach_permissions()
act: use credential guards in acct_write_process()
smb: use credential guards in cifs_get_spnego_key()
nfs: use credential guards in nfs_idmap_get_key()
nfs: use credential guards in nfs_local_call_write()
nfs: use credential guards in nfs_local_call_read()
erofs: use credential guards
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