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| author | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> | 2018-12-03 11:30:30 +1100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2021-10-06 10:22:25 +0200 |
| commit | c2192a6299b8cf1b3e4e3cc18d2550e73e3bb472 (patch) | |
| tree | a417c43eb2da031efcbb96e89c799b54ff268151 /include | |
| parent | 7ce4e49146612261265671b1d30d117139021030 (diff) | |
cred: allow get_cred() and put_cred() to be given NULL.
commit f06bc03339ad4c1baa964a5f0606247ac1c3c50b upstream.
It is common practice for helpers like this to silently,
accept a NULL pointer.
get_rpccred() and put_rpccred() used by NFS act this way
and using the same interface will ease the conversion
for NFS, and simplify the resulting code.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/cred.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h index d2db1da3036c..ee2b36cdb80d 100644 --- a/include/linux/cred.h +++ b/include/linux/cred.h @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ static inline struct cred *get_new_cred(struct cred *cred) * @cred: The credentials to reference * * Get a reference on the specified set of credentials. The caller must - * release the reference. + * release the reference. If %NULL is passed, it is returned with no action. * * This is used to deal with a committed set of credentials. Although the * pointer is const, this will temporarily discard the const and increment the @@ -254,6 +254,8 @@ static inline struct cred *get_new_cred(struct cred *cred) static inline const struct cred *get_cred(const struct cred *cred) { struct cred *nonconst_cred = (struct cred *) cred; + if (!cred) + return cred; validate_creds(cred); nonconst_cred->non_rcu = 0; return get_new_cred(nonconst_cred); @@ -264,7 +266,7 @@ static inline const struct cred *get_cred(const struct cred *cred) * @cred: The credentials to release * * Release a reference to a set of credentials, deleting them when the last ref - * is released. + * is released. If %NULL is passed, nothing is done. * * This takes a const pointer to a set of credentials because the credentials * on task_struct are attached by const pointers to prevent accidental @@ -274,9 +276,11 @@ static inline void put_cred(const struct cred *_cred) { struct cred *cred = (struct cred *) _cred; - validate_creds(cred); - if (atomic_dec_and_test(&(cred)->usage)) - __put_cred(cred); + if (cred) { + validate_creds(cred); + if (atomic_dec_and_test(&(cred)->usage)) + __put_cred(cred); + } } /** |