Merge branch 'drm-next-ast-fixes' of ssh://people.freedesktop.org/~/linux into drm...

[karo-tx-linux.git] / include / linux / cred.h

diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index f61d6c8f5ef317579adcc17d873f4694327c2c53..b2d0820837c4259915c42208e696b09bf56c365d 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/cred.h
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -258,6 +258,15 @@ static inline void put_cred(const struct cred *_cred)
 #define current_cred() \
        rcu_dereference_protected(current->cred, 1)
 
+/**
+ * current_real_cred - Access the current task's objective credentials
+ *
+ * Access the objective credentials of the current task.  RCU-safe,
+ * since nobody else can modify it.
+ */
+#define current_real_cred() \
+       rcu_dereference_protected(current->real_cred, 1)
+
 /**
  * __task_cred - Access a task's objective credentials
  * @task: The task to query