[PATCH 14/16] act: use credential guards in acct_write_process()

Christian Brauner brauner at kernel.org
Tue Nov 4 22:40:36 AEDT 2025


On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 08:04:28AM +0900, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 at 20:27, Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> >         /* Perform file operations on behalf of whoever enabled accounting */
> > -       cred = override_creds(file->f_cred);
> > -
> > +       with_creds(file->f_cred);
> 
> I'd almost prefer if we *only* did "scoped_with_creds()" and didn't
> have this version at all.
> 
> Most of the cases want that anyway, and the couple of plain
> "with_creds()" cases look like they would only be cleaned up by making
> the cred scoping more explicit.
> 
> What do you think?

Yeah, good idea. I reworked it all so now we're only left with:

scoped_with_creds()
scoped_with_kernel_creds()

It increases the indentation for about 3 cases but otherwise is safer.
It's all in:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git/log/?h=kernel-6.19.cred


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