Merge branch 'locking/urgent' into locking/core, to pick up locking fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index 0c3c4b16b469..5658a3bfe803 100644
--- a/include/linux/cred.h
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -172,18 +172,12 @@ static inline bool cap_ambient_invariant_ok(const struct cred *cred)
 
 static inline const struct cred *override_creds(const struct cred *override_cred)
 {
-	const struct cred *old = current->cred;
-
-	rcu_assign_pointer(current->cred, override_cred);
-	return old;
+	return rcu_replace_pointer(current->cred, override_cred, 1);
 }
 
 static inline const struct cred *revert_creds(const struct cred *revert_cred)
 {
-	const struct cred *override_cred = current->cred;
-
-	rcu_assign_pointer(current->cred, revert_cred);
-	return override_cred;
+	return rcu_replace_pointer(current->cred, revert_cred, 1);
 }
 
 /**