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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/cred.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/cred.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h index 8edb4d1d542..794aab5c66e 100644 --- a/include/linux/cred.h +++ b/include/linux/cred.h @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/* Credentials management +/* Credentials management - see Documentation/credentials.txt * * Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved. * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com) @@ -169,6 +169,12 @@ static inline struct cred *get_new_cred(struct cred *cred) * * Get a reference on the specified set of credentials. The caller must * release the reference. + * + * 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 + * usage count. The purpose of this is to attempt to catch at compile time the + * accidental alteration of a set of credentials that should be considered + * immutable. */ static inline const struct cred *get_cred(const struct cred *cred) { @@ -181,6 +187,10 @@ static inline const struct cred *get_cred(const struct cred *cred) * * Release a reference to a set of credentials, deleting them when the last ref * is released. + * + * This takes a const pointer to a set of credentials because the credentials + * on task_struct are attached by const pointers to prevent accidental + * alteration of otherwise immutable credential sets. */ static inline void put_cred(const struct cred *_cred) { |