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fs: Clarify "non-RCY" in access_override_creds() comment
author
Bagas Sanjaya
<bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Tue, 31 Oct 2023 11:47:28 +0000
(18:47 +0700)
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Christian Brauner
<brauner@kernel.org>
Sat, 18 Nov 2023 14:00:01 +0000
(15:00 +0100)
The term is originally intended as a joke that stands for "non-racy".
This trips new contributors who mistake it for RCU typo [1].
Replace the term with more-explicit wording.
Link:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231030-debatten-nachrangig-f58abcdac530@brauner/
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231031114728.41485-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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fs/open.c
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static const struct cred *access_override_creds(void)
* 'get_current_cred()' function), that will clear the
* non_rcu field, because now that other user may be
* expecting RCU freeing. But normal thread-synchronous
- * cred accesses will keep things non-RCY.
+ * cred accesses will keep things non-racy to avoid RCU
+ * freeing.
*/
override_cred->non_rcu = 1;