The term is originally intended as a joke that stands for "non-racy".
This trips new contributors who mistake it for RCU typo [1].
Replace the term with more-explicit wording.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231030-debatten-nachrangig-f58abcdac530@brauner/
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <[email protected]>
---
fs/open.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 98f6601fbac65e..a89c64629aacf4 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -442,7 +442,8 @@ static const struct cred *access_override_creds(void)
* 'get_current_cred()' function), that will clear the
* non_rcu field, because now that other user may be
* expecting RCU freeing. But normal thread-synchronous
- * cred accesses will keep things non-RCY.
+ * cred accesses will keep things non-racy to avoid RCU
+ * freeing.
*/
override_cred->non_rcu = 1;
base-commit: 7f680e5f256f346a5d3cd83a17c84bb6bc950008
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