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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2008-11-14 10:39:16 +1100
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2008-11-14 10:39:16 +1100
commitb6dff3ec5e116e3af6f537d4caedcad6b9e5082a (patch)
tree9e76f972eb7ce9b84e0146c8e4126a3f86acb428 /kernel/capability.c
parent15a2460ed0af7538ca8e6c610fe607a2cd9da142 (diff)
downloadlinux-b6dff3ec5e116e3af6f537d4caedcad6b9e5082a.tar.bz2
CRED: Separate task security context from task_struct
Separate the task security context from task_struct. At this point, the security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers pointing to it. Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in entry.S via asm-offsets. With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/capability.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/capability.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c
index 58b00519624a..a404b980b1bd 100644
--- a/kernel/capability.c
+++ b/kernel/capability.c
@@ -171,8 +171,8 @@ kernel_cap_t cap_set_effective(const kernel_cap_t pE_new)
spin_lock(&task_capability_lock);
- pE_old = current->cap_effective;
- current->cap_effective = pE_new;
+ pE_old = current->cred->cap_effective;
+ current->cred->cap_effective = pE_new;
spin_unlock(&task_capability_lock);