Re: [PATCH] shift current_cred() from __f_setown() to f_modown()

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Jun 16 2009 - 16:22:50 EST




On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Shift current_cred() from __f_setown() to f_modown(). This reduces
> the number of arguments and saves 48 bytes from fs/fcntl.o.

Ok, I know I asked for this, but now I suddenly start worrying about
whether f_owner.uid/euid are initialized at all for the pid==NULL case?

They used to be initialized to zero, now they are left alone. Are they
initialized somewhere else earlier?

Linus
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