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CacheFiles: Fix the documentation to use the correct credential pointer names 

Adjust the CacheFiles documentation to use the correct names of the credential
pointers in task_struct.

The documentation was using names from the old versions of the credentials
patches.

Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Marc Dionne 2009-04-23 11:21:55 +01:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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commit 91ac033d83
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Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt
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@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ A NOTE ON SECURITY
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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).