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Christian Brauner e0876bde29
Merge patch series "creds: add {scoped_}with_kernel_creds()"
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> says:

A few months ago I did work to make override_creds()/revert_creds()
completely reference count free - mostly for the sake of
overlayfs but it has been beneficial to everyone using this.

In a recent pull request from Jens that introduced another round of
override_creds()/revert_creds() for nbd Linus asked whether we could
avoide the prepare_kernel_creds() calls that duplicate the kernel
credentials and then drop them again later.

Yes, we can actually. We can use the guard infrastructure to completely
avoid the allocation and then also to never expose the temporary
variable to hold the kernel credentials anywhere in the callers.

So add with_kernel_creds() and scoped_with_kernel_creds() for this
purpose. Also take the opportunity to fixup the scoped_class() macro I
introduced two cycles ago.

* patches from https://patch.msgid.link/20251103-work-creds-init_cred-v1-0-cb3ec8711a6a@kernel.org:
  unix: don't copy creds
  target: don't copy kernel creds
  nbd: don't copy kernel creds
  firmware: don't copy kernel creds
  cred: add {scoped_}with_kernel_creds
  cred: make init_cred static
  cred: add kernel_cred() helper
  cleanup: fix scoped_class()

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251103-work-creds-init_cred-v1-0-cb3ec8711a6a@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
History 2025-11-04 12:36:24 +01:00
arch - Remove dead code leftovers after a recent mitigations cleanup which fail 2025-10-26 09:57:18 -07:00
block block-6.18-20251023 2025-10-24 12:48:19 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto This push contains the following changes: 2025-10-10 08:56:16 -07:00
Documentation tty/serial driver bugfixes for 6.18-rc3 2025-10-26 10:24:39 -07:00
drivers target: don't copy kernel creds 2025-11-04 12:36:18 +01:00
fs - Remove dead code leftovers after a recent mitigations cleanup which fail 2025-10-26 09:57:18 -07:00
include cred: add scoped_with_kernel_creds() 2025-11-04 12:36:07 +01:00
init cred: make init_cred static 2025-11-04 12:36:02 +01:00
io_uring io_uring: fix buffer auto-commit for multishot uring_cmd 2025-10-23 19:41:31 -06:00
ipc namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
kernel cred: make init_cred static 2025-11-04 12:36:02 +01:00
lib lib/crypto: poly1305: Restore dependency of arch code on !KMSAN 2025-10-22 10:52:10 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm slab fixes for 6.18-rc3 2025-10-24 12:40:51 -07:00
net unix: don't copy creds 2025-11-04 12:36:21 +01:00
rust Driver core fixes for 6.18-rc3 2025-10-25 11:03:46 -07:00
samples Char/Misc/IIO/Binder changes for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-04 16:26:32 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for 6.18 #1 2025-10-11 15:47:12 -07:00
security cred: make init_cred static 2025-11-04 12:36:02 +01:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB/Thunderbolt changes for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-04 16:07:08 -07:00
Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS io_uring-6.18-20251023 2025-10-24 12:44:31 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.18-rc3 2025-10-26 15:59:49 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.