Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756796AbYHNALD (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:11:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753296AbYHNAKx (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:10:53 -0400 Received: from tundra.namei.org ([65.99.196.166]:56341 "EHLO tundra.namei.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752976AbYHNAKw (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:10:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:10:11 +1000 (EST) From: James Morris To: Linus Torvalds cc: Stephen Rothwell , David Howells , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Subject: [GIT] Credentials API wrappers for 2.6.27 Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LRH 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1454 Lines: 38 The patch below from David Howells adds wrappers for the new credentials wrappers without utilizing them (except for XFS per below), so that subsystems may be converted over to the new API in smaller pieces. This approach was suggested by Stephen here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121843301206340&w=2 Some changes were made to the XFS code to eliminate namespace collisions, and these have been updated according to feedback from Christoph (who has also since ok'd them to me personally). Please pull. The following changes since commit 8d0968abd03ec6b407df117adc773562386702fa: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge git://git.kernel.org/.../herbert/crypto-2.6 are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 for-linus David Howells (1): CRED: Introduce credential access wrappers fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h | 2 - fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 4 +- fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c | 8 +++--- include/linux/cred.h | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/sched.h | 1 + 5 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) create mode 100644 include/linux/cred.h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/