On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> Add the COW structure 'vfs_cred'
>
> Make VFS changes to replace all instances of
> current->fsuid/fsgid/ngroups/groups with a single 'vfs_cred' that
> never can be changed by CLONE_CRED after we call down into the VFS.
Yup, I think I like that plan.
One thing that may be interesting (I certainly think it migth be), would
be to add a "struct user_struct *" pointer to the vfs_cred as well. This
is because I'd just _love_ to have that "user_struct" fed down to the VFS
layer, since I think that is where we may some day want to put things like
user-supplied cryptographic keys etc.
The advantage of "struct user_struct" (as opposed to just a uid_t) is that
it can have information that lives for the whole duration of a login, and
it's really the only kind of data structure in the kernel that can track
that kind of information.
> > (I would suggest calling the FS credentials "struct vfs_cred",
> > while the regular user credentials might just be "struct cred".
> > Other suggestions?)
>
> I'm fine about 'vfs_cred', but how about 'struct task_cred' instead
> for the second?
Sounds fine to me.
Linus
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