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| author | Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher@toradex.com> | 2021-10-16 13:04:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher@toradex.com> | 2021-10-16 13:04:24 +0200 |
| commit | f8e718054f4421d11638e370b933ccc6c77466ed (patch) | |
| tree | 973ff8cb8aed7d8e4da6a194456ddc01c206b7de /include/linux/cred.h | |
| parent | d900385139e5aa8d584dee92c87bb85d0226253e (diff) | |
| parent | 1392fe82d7fba00ba4a8e01968935f2b2085d5a4 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v4.4.288' into toradex_vf_4.4
This is the 4.4.288 stable release
Signed-off-by: Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher@toradex.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/cred.h')
| -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); + } } /** |