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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2008-11-13 18:39:22 -0500
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2008-11-13 18:39:22 -0500
commit745ca2475a6ac596e3d8d37c2759c0fbe2586227 (patch)
treef87c34bdfbc8542477b16a014bbb4e3b415b286a /arch/um/drivers
parent88e67f3b8898c5ea81d2916dd5b8bc9c0c35ba13 (diff)
CRED: Pass credentials through dentry_open()
Pass credentials through dentry_open() so that the COW creds patch can have SELinux's flush_unauthorized_files() pass the appropriate creds back to itself when it opens its null chardev. The security_dentry_open() call also now takes a creds pointer, as does the dentry_open hook in struct security_operations. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/um/drivers')
-rw-r--r--arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c
index 19d579d74d27..16d3b3789a50 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c
@@ -159,7 +159,8 @@ void mconsole_proc(struct mc_request *req)
159 goto out_kill; 159 goto out_kill;
160 } 160 }
161 161
162 file = dentry_open(nd.path.dentry, nd.path.mnt, O_RDONLY); 162 file = dentry_open(nd.path.dentry, nd.path.mnt, O_RDONLY,
163 current_cred());
163 if (IS_ERR(file)) { 164 if (IS_ERR(file)) {
164 mconsole_reply(req, "Failed to open file", 1, 0); 165 mconsole_reply(req, "Failed to open file", 1, 0);
165 goto out_kill; 166 goto out_kill;