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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/caching')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt index c78a49b7bba6..748a1ae49e12 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ A NOTE ON SECURITY ================== 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). diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt index 4db125b3a5c6..2666b1ed5e9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ This has the following fields: have index children. If this function is not supplied or if it returns NULL then the first - cache in the parent's list will be chosed, or failing that, the first + cache in the parent's list will be chosen, or failing that, the first cache in the master list. (4) A function to retrieve an object's key from the netfs [mandatory]. |