Re: [md PATCH 0/4] Minor 'cred' improvements prepare for NFS conversion

[Anna Schumaker]

On 01/31/2018 12:15 AM, NeilBrown wrote:
> Hi,
>  NFS and SUNRPC have an internal "rpc_cred" which plays two distinct
>  roles, one of which is much the same as 'struct cred' (which didn't
>  exist when rpc_cred was created).
>  I want to replace that usage of rpc_cred with 'struct cred'.
>  Doing so requires some minor improvements to cred.c and cred.h as
>  follows.
> 
>  It isn't clear to me who "maintains" cred.c and cred.h, so I'm hoping
>  that Andrew Morton will take these (if no-one complains).
>  Alternately if I got one or two credible "Acked-by"s, they could go
>  upstream through the NFS tree when the rest of the patches are ready.

Neil sent these patches out a while ago, and I haven't heard any acks for them yet.  Does anybody have a problem with me taking them through the NFS tree for 4.17?

Anna

> 
> Thanks,
> NeilBrown
> 
> 
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> 
> NeilBrown (4):
>       cred: add cred_fscmp() for comparing creds.
>       cred: add get_cred_rcu()
>       cred: export get_task_cred().
>       cred: allow get_cred() and put_cred() to be given NULL.
> 
> 
>  include/linux/cred.h |   26 ++++++++++++++++++----
>  kernel/cred.c        |   58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
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