In the process of removing an explicit type cast to preserve a cred const qualifier in cred_init_security() we ran into a problem where the task_struct::real_cred field is defined with the "__rcu" attribute but the selinux_cred() function parameter is not, leading to a sparse warning: security/selinux/hooks.c:216:36: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) @@ expected struct cred const *cred @@ got struct cred const [noderef] __rcu *real_cred As we don't want to add the "__rcu" attribute to the selinux_cred() parameter, we're going to add an explicit cast back to cred_init_security(). Fixes: b084e189b01a ("selinux: simplify cred_init_security") Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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