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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-29 14:46:59 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-29 14:47:05 +0200 |
commit | e7fd5d4b3d240f42c30a9e3d20a4689c4d3a795a (patch) | |
tree | 4ba588631dd8189a818a91c9e3976526071178b6 /Documentation/filesystems/caching | |
parent | 1130b0296184bc21806225fd06d533515a99d2db (diff) | |
parent | 56a50adda49b2020156616c4eb15353e0f9ad7de (diff) |
Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: This brach was on -rc1, refresh it to almost-rc4 to pick up
the latest upstream fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/caching')
-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 c78a49b7bba..748a1ae49e1 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). |