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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2011-11-16 21:52:53 -0800
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-04-07 16:55:52 -0700
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cred: Refcount the user_ns pointed to by the cred.
struct user_struct will shortly loose it's user_ns reference so make the cred user_ns reference a proper reference complete with reference counting. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index d12c4e475c15..2c60ec802678 100644
--- a/include/linux/cred.h
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ struct cred {
void *security; /* subjective LSM security */
#endif
struct user_struct *user; /* real user ID subscription */
- struct user_namespace *user_ns; /* cached user->user_ns */
+ struct user_namespace *user_ns; /* user_ns the caps and keyrings are relative to. */
struct group_info *group_info; /* supplementary groups for euid/fsgid */
struct rcu_head rcu; /* RCU deletion hook */
};