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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2008-11-14 10:39:22 +1100
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2008-11-14 10:39:22 +1100
commit745ca2475a6ac596e3d8d37c2759c0fbe2586227 (patch)
treef87c34bdfbc8542477b16a014bbb4e3b415b286a /include/linux/security.h
parent88e67f3b8898c5ea81d2916dd5b8bc9c0c35ba13 (diff)
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CRED: Pass credentials through dentry_open()
Pass credentials through dentry_open() so that the COW creds patch can have SELinux's flush_unauthorized_files() pass the appropriate creds back to itself when it opens its null chardev. The security_dentry_open() call also now takes a creds pointer, as does the dentry_open hook in struct security_operations. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/security.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/security.h7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index 9239cc11eb9c..7e9fe046a0d1 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ struct security_operations {
int (*file_send_sigiotask) (struct task_struct *tsk,
struct fown_struct *fown, int sig);
int (*file_receive) (struct file *file);
- int (*dentry_open) (struct file *file);
+ int (*dentry_open) (struct file *file, const struct cred *cred);
int (*task_create) (unsigned long clone_flags);
int (*cred_alloc_security) (struct cred *cred);
@@ -1658,7 +1658,7 @@ int security_file_set_fowner(struct file *file);
int security_file_send_sigiotask(struct task_struct *tsk,
struct fown_struct *fown, int sig);
int security_file_receive(struct file *file);
-int security_dentry_open(struct file *file);
+int security_dentry_open(struct file *file, const struct cred *cred);
int security_task_create(unsigned long clone_flags);
int security_cred_alloc(struct cred *cred);
void security_cred_free(struct cred *cred);
@@ -2171,7 +2171,8 @@ static inline int security_file_receive(struct file *file)
return 0;
}
-static inline int security_dentry_open(struct file *file)
+static inline int security_dentry_open(struct file *file,
+ const struct cred *cred)
{
return 0;
}