[PATCH 05/12] coredump: move revert_cred() before coredump_cleanup()

Christian Brauner brauner at kernel.org
Tue Nov 4 01:57:31 AEDT 2025


There's no need to pin the credentials across the coredump_cleanup()
call. Nothing in there depends on elevated credentials.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>
---
 fs/coredump.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
index 5c1c381ee380..4fce2a2f279c 100644
--- a/fs/coredump.c
+++ b/fs/coredump.c
@@ -1197,8 +1197,8 @@ void vfs_coredump(const kernel_siginfo_t *siginfo)
 	}
 
 close_fail:
-	coredump_cleanup(&cn, &cprm);
 	revert_creds(old_cred);
+	coredump_cleanup(&cn, &cprm);
 	return;
 }
 

-- 
2.47.3



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