From 5e751e992f3fb08ba35e1ca8095ec8fbf9eda523 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 13:55:22 +0100 Subject: CRED: Rename cred_exec_mutex to reflect that it's a guard against ptrace Rename cred_exec_mutex to reflect that it's a guard against foreign intervention on a process's credential state, such as is made by ptrace(). The attachment of a debugger to a process affects execve()'s calculation of the new credential state - _and_ also setprocattr()'s calculation of that state. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: James Morris --- kernel/cred.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/cred.c') diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c index 3a039189d70..1bb4d7e5d61 100644 --- a/kernel/cred.c +++ b/kernel/cred.c @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(prepare_creds); /* * Prepare credentials for current to perform an execve() - * - The caller must hold current->cred_exec_mutex + * - The caller must hold current->cred_guard_mutex */ struct cred *prepare_exec_creds(void) { @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ int copy_creds(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long clone_flags) struct cred *new; int ret; - mutex_init(&p->cred_exec_mutex); + mutex_init(&p->cred_guard_mutex); if ( #ifdef CONFIG_KEYS -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258