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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2011-11-16 23:15:31 -0800
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-04-07 16:55:51 -0700
commitc4a4d603796c727b9555867571f89483be9c565e (patch)
treeae3b47a7b8b35c866df53cb4b4a051d49a28904a /security/keys
parentcred: Add forward declaration of init_user_ns in all cases. (diff)
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userns: Use cred->user_ns instead of cred->user->user_ns
Optimize performance and prepare for the removal of the user_ns reference from user_struct. Remove the slow long walk through cred->user->user_ns and instead go straight to cred->user_ns. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/keys')
-rw-r--r--security/keys/key.c2
-rw-r--r--security/keys/permission.c2
-rw-r--r--security/keys/process_keys.c2
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/key.c b/security/keys/key.c
index 06783cffb3af..7e6034793af3 100644
--- a/security/keys/key.c
+++ b/security/keys/key.c
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ struct key *key_alloc(struct key_type *type, const char *desc,
quotalen = desclen + type->def_datalen;
/* get hold of the key tracking for this user */
- user = key_user_lookup(uid, cred->user->user_ns);
+ user = key_user_lookup(uid, cred->user_ns);
if (!user)
goto no_memory_1;
diff --git a/security/keys/permission.c b/security/keys/permission.c
index c35b5229e3cd..e146cbd714bd 100644
--- a/security/keys/permission.c
+++ b/security/keys/permission.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ int key_task_permission(const key_ref_t key_ref, const struct cred *cred,
key = key_ref_to_ptr(key_ref);
- if (key->user->user_ns != cred->user->user_ns)
+ if (key->user->user_ns != cred->user_ns)
goto use_other_perms;
/* use the second 8-bits of permissions for keys the caller owns */
diff --git a/security/keys/process_keys.c b/security/keys/process_keys.c
index be7ecb2018dd..70febff06da9 100644
--- a/security/keys/process_keys.c
+++ b/security/keys/process_keys.c
@@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ void key_replace_session_keyring(void)
new-> sgid = old-> sgid;
new->fsgid = old->fsgid;
new->user = get_uid(old->user);
- new->user_ns = new->user->user_ns;
+ new->user_ns = new->user_ns;
new->group_info = get_group_info(old->group_info);
new->securebits = old->securebits;