Unverified Commit 6efbb804 authored by Christian Brauner's avatar Christian Brauner
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cred: remove unused get_new_cred() 

This helper is not used anymore so remove it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241125-work-cred-v2-29-68b9d38bb5b2@kernel.org


Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
parent 4fa6af56

Documentation/security/credentials.rst

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@@ -527,11 +527,6 @@ There are some functions to help manage credentials: 
     This gets a reference on a live set of credentials, returning a pointer to

     that set of credentials.



 - ``struct cred *get_new_cred(struct cred *cred);``



     This gets a reference on a set of credentials that is under construction

     and is thus still mutable, returning a pointer to that set of credentials.





Open File Credentials

=====================

include/linux/cred.h

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@@ -200,19 +200,6 @@ static inline struct cred *get_new_cred_many(struct cred *cred, int nr) 
	return cred;

}



/**

 * get_new_cred - Get a reference on a new set of credentials

 * @cred: The new credentials to reference

 *

 * Get a reference on the specified set of new credentials.  The caller must

 * release the reference.

 */

static inline struct cred *get_new_cred(const struct cred *cred)

{

	struct cred *nonconst_cred = (struct cred *) cred;

	return get_new_cred_many(nonconst_cred, 1);

}



/**

 * get_cred_many - Get references on a set of credentials

 * @cred: The credentials to reference