[PATCH 06/16] backing-file: use credential guards for splice write

Christian Brauner brauner at kernel.org
Mon Nov 3 22:26:54 AEDT 2025


Use credential guards for scoped credential override with automatic
restoration on scope exit.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>
---
 fs/backing-file.c | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/backing-file.c b/fs/backing-file.c
index 8ebc62f49bad..9c63a3368b66 100644
--- a/fs/backing-file.c
+++ b/fs/backing-file.c
@@ -303,7 +303,6 @@ ssize_t backing_file_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
 				  size_t len, unsigned int flags,
 				  struct backing_file_ctx *ctx)
 {
-	const struct cred *old_cred;
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!(out->f_mode & FMODE_BACKING)))
@@ -316,11 +315,11 @@ ssize_t backing_file_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	old_cred = override_creds(ctx->cred);
-	file_start_write(out);
-	ret = out->f_op->splice_write(pipe, out, &iocb->ki_pos, len, flags);
-	file_end_write(out);
-	revert_creds(old_cred);
+	scoped_with_creds(ctx->cred) {
+		file_start_write(out);
+		ret = out->f_op->splice_write(pipe, out, &iocb->ki_pos, len, flags);
+		file_end_write(out);
+	}
 
 	if (ctx->end_write)
 		ctx->end_write(iocb, ret);

-- 
2.47.3



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