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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2010-05-26 14:43:01 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-27 09:12:45 -0700
commitc70a626d3eba373514c72287c93588b6974a0059 (patch)
treec23b890cbbeb824e52e1eaee6812bc88496a246d /include/linux
parent685bfd2c48bb3284d31e73ff3151c957d76deda9 (diff)
umh: creds: kill subprocess_info->cred logic
Now that nobody ever changes subprocess_info->cred we can kill this member and related code. ____call_usermodehelper() always runs in the context of freshly forked kernel thread, it has the proper ->cred copied from its parent kthread, keventd. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/cred.h1
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kmod.h1
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index 52507c3e1387..75c0fa881308 100644
--- a/include/linux/cred.h
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -156,7 +156,6 @@ extern int copy_creds(struct task_struct *, unsigned long);
extern struct cred *cred_alloc_blank(void);
extern struct cred *prepare_creds(void);
extern struct cred *prepare_exec_creds(void);
-extern struct cred *prepare_usermodehelper_creds(void);
extern int commit_creds(struct cred *);
extern void abort_creds(struct cred *);
extern const struct cred *override_creds(const struct cred *);
diff --git a/include/linux/kmod.h b/include/linux/kmod.h
index d876dce217f0..6efd7a78de6a 100644
--- a/include/linux/kmod.h
+++ b/include/linux/kmod.h
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ enum umh_wait {
struct subprocess_info {
struct work_struct work;
struct completion *complete;
- struct cred *cred;
char *path;
char **argv;
char **envp;