Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:47:54 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/2] scm: Stop passing struct cred | From | David Miller <> |
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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:28:16 -0700
> > Now that uids and gids are completely encapsulated in kuid_t > and kgid_t we no longer need to pass struct cred which allowed > us to test both the uid and the user namespace for equality. > > Passing struct cred potentially allows us to pass the entire group > list as BSD does but I don't believe the cost of cache line misses > justifies retaining code for a future potential application. > > Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
I'll apply this to net-next once #1 and #2 propagate there.
Thanks!
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