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| author | Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> | 2026-07-03 06:57:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> | 2026-07-07 15:10:48 -0400 |
| commit | 15c1f17979712407a4a71f2129f89ecd625ccbe8 (patch) | |
| tree | 4c64b96ef8dd541ad505e1b5bac6e81b4e5ad630 /include/linux | |
| parent | ef2d3e4635761b0af2bf1b89a2252e42a3bf37f1 (diff) | |
cred: delete task_euid()
task_euid() is a very weird operation. You can see how weird it is by
grepping for task_euid() - binder is its only user. task_euid() obtains
the objective effective UID - it looks at the credentials of the task
for purposes of acting on it as an object, but then accesses the
effective UID (which the credentials.7 man page describes as "[...] used
by the kernel to determine the permissions that the process will have
when accessing shared resources [...]").
Since usage in Binder has now been removed, get rid of the resulting
dead code.
Changes to the zh_CN translation was carried out with the help of
Gemini and Google Translate, and since adjusted as per Alex Shi's
feedback.
Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/cred.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h index c6676265a985..6ef1750c93e2 100644 --- a/include/linux/cred.h +++ b/include/linux/cred.h @@ -371,7 +371,6 @@ DEFINE_FREE(put_cred, struct cred *, if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_T)) put_cred(_T)) }) #define task_uid(task) (task_cred_xxx((task), uid)) -#define task_euid(task) (task_cred_xxx((task), euid)) #define task_ucounts(task) (task_cred_xxx((task), ucounts)) #define current_cred_xxx(xxx) \ |