Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:47:54 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/2] scm: Stop passing struct cred
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:28:16 -0700

> 
> Now that uids and gids are completely encapsulated in kuid_t
> and kgid_t we no longer need to pass struct cred which allowed
> us to test both the uid and the user namespace for equality.
> 
> Passing struct cred potentially allows us to pass the entire group
> list as BSD does but I don't believe the cost of cache line misses
> justifies retaining code for a future potential application.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

I'll apply this to net-next once #1 and #2 propagate there.

Thanks!
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