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umh: creds: convert call_usermodehelper_keys() to use subprocess_info->init()

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call_usermodehelper_keys() uses call_usermodehelper_setkeys() to change
subprocess_info->cred in advance.  Now that we have info->init() we can
change this code to set tgcred->session_keyring in context of execing
kernel thread.

Note: since currently call_usermodehelper_keys() is never called with
UMH_NO_WAIT, call_usermodehelper_keys()->key_get() and umh_keys_cleanup()
are not really needed, we could rely on install_session_keyring_to_cred()
which does key_get() on success.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-26 14:43:00 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 898b374af6
commit 685bfd2c48
5 changed files with 34 additions and 37 deletions
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@@ -366,24 +366,6 @@ struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setup);
/**
* call_usermodehelper_setkeys - set the session keys for usermode helper
* @info: a subprocess_info returned by call_usermodehelper_setup
* @session_keyring: the session keyring for the process
*/
void call_usermodehelper_setkeys(struct subprocess_info *info,
struct key *session_keyring)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
struct thread_group_cred *tgcred = info->cred->tgcred;
key_put(tgcred->session_keyring);
tgcred->session_keyring = key_get(session_keyring);
#else
BUG();
#endif
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setkeys);
/**
* call_usermodehelper_setfns - set a cleanup/init function
* @info: a subprocess_info returned by call_usermodehelper_setup