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| author | Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com> | 2009-04-23 11:21:55 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-04-24 13:28:30 -0700 |
| commit | 91ac033d8377552d3654501a105ab55bf546940e (patch) | |
| tree | b3757b6b5f2180edb94049971850f76355abaa19 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | e5b89542ea18020961882228c26db3ba87f6e608 (diff) | |
CacheFiles: Fix the documentation to use the correct credential pointer names
Adjust the CacheFiles documentation to use the correct names of the credential
pointers in task_struct.
The documentation was using names from the old versions of the credentials
patches.
Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt index c78a49b7bba6..748a1ae49e12 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ A NOTE ON SECURITY ================== CacheFiles makes use of the split security in the task_struct. It allocates -its own task_security structure, and redirects current->act_as to point to it +its own task_security structure, and redirects current->cred to point to it when it acts on behalf of another process, in that process's context. The reason it does this is that it calls vfs_mkdir() and suchlike rather than @@ -429,9 +429,9 @@ This means it may lose signals or ptrace events for example, and affects what the process looks like in /proc. So CacheFiles makes use of a logical split in the security between the -objective security (task->sec) and the subjective security (task->act_as). The -objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and is -never overridden. This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a +objective security (task->real_cred) and the subjective security (task->cred). +The objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and +is never overridden. This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a process is the target of an operation by some other process (SIGKILL for example). |