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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2010-05-26 14:43:01 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-05-27 09:12:45 -0700 |
| commit | c70a626d3eba373514c72287c93588b6974a0059 (patch) | |
| tree | c23b890cbbeb824e52e1eaee6812bc88496a246d /include | |
| parent | 685bfd2c48bb3284d31e73ff3151c957d76deda9 (diff) | |
umh: creds: kill subprocess_info->cred logic
Now that nobody ever changes subprocess_info->cred we can kill this member
and related code. ____call_usermodehelper() always runs in the context of
freshly forked kernel thread, it has the proper ->cred copied from its
parent kthread, keventd.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/cred.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kmod.h | 1 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h index 52507c3e1387..75c0fa881308 100644 --- a/include/linux/cred.h +++ b/include/linux/cred.h @@ -156,7 +156,6 @@ extern int copy_creds(struct task_struct *, unsigned long); extern struct cred *cred_alloc_blank(void); extern struct cred *prepare_creds(void); extern struct cred *prepare_exec_creds(void); -extern struct cred *prepare_usermodehelper_creds(void); extern int commit_creds(struct cred *); extern void abort_creds(struct cred *); extern const struct cred *override_creds(const struct cred *); diff --git a/include/linux/kmod.h b/include/linux/kmod.h index d876dce217f0..6efd7a78de6a 100644 --- a/include/linux/kmod.h +++ b/include/linux/kmod.h @@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ enum umh_wait { struct subprocess_info { struct work_struct work; struct completion *complete; - struct cred *cred; char *path; char **argv; char **envp; |