Re: fix rcu annotations noise in cred.h

[David Howells]

Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  #define current_cred() \
> -	(current->cred)
> +	(*(__force struct cred **)&current->cred)

No.  You've cast away the const.  Please don't do that.

Paul: isn't there some better way of doing this using an RCU wrapper macro?

	#define current_cred() \
		rcu_dereference_protected(current->cred, 1) 

Perhaps?

David
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