[PATCH] CRED: Use correct task_struct members in cred.h comments

[PATCH] CRED: Use correct task_struct members in cred.h comments

[David Howells]

From: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>

Adjust comments in linux/cred.h - use the correct names for the struct cred
pointers in the task_struct structure.

Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---

 include/linux/cred.h |   12 ++++++------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index 1f8d8d0..26c1ab1 100644
--- a/include/linux/cred.h
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -101,14 +101,14 @@ struct thread_group_cred {
  * Note that some members of this structure belong to both categories - the
  * LSM security pointer for instance.
  *
- * A task has two security pointers.  task->sec points to the objective context
- * that defines that task's actual details.  The objective part of this context
- * is used whenever that task is acted upon.
+ * A task has two security pointers.  task->real_cred points to the objective
+ * context that defines that task's actual details.  The objective part of this
+ * context is used whenever that task is acted upon.
  *
- * task->act_as points to the subjective context that defines the details of
- * how that task is going to act upon another object.  This may be overridden
+ * task->cred points to the subjective context that defines the details of how
+ * that task is going to act upon another object.  This may be overridden
  * temporarily to point to another security context, but normally points to the
- * same context as task->sec.
+ * same context as task->real_cred.
  */
 struct cred {
 	atomic_t	usage;

Re: [PATCH] CRED: Use correct task_struct members in cred.h comments

[James Morris]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, David Howells wrote:

> From: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
> 
> Adjust comments in linux/cred.h - use the correct names for the struct cred
> pointers in the task_struct structure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Applied to:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next-creds-subsys


-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>