From:   David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To:     'Linus Torvalds' <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
CC:     Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
        "serge@hallyn.com" <serge@hallyn.com>,
        "paul@paul-moore.com" <paul@paul-moore.com>,
        "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org" 
        <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 2/2] vfs: avoid duplicating creds in faccessat if
 possible
Thread-Topic: [PATCH v3 2/2] vfs: avoid duplicating creds in faccessat if
 possible
Thread-Index: AQHZTtzWe5NzBLiIgUWjC9/KNPby/q7sbr9A
Date:   Sun, 5 Mar 2023 17:23:29 +0000
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