Commit d2185690 authored by Bagas Sanjaya's avatar Bagas Sanjaya Committed by Christian Brauner
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fs: Clarify "non-RCY" in access_override_creds() comment 

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: default avatarBagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231031114728.41485-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
parent 297945d9

fs/open.c

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@@ -442,7 +442,8 @@ 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;