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Re: [RFC] call_with_creds()

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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So now you take a subtle bug, and make it even more subtle, and encourage people to do this known-broken model of using creds at IO time. No.
No.
Some debugging option to just clear current->creds entirely and catch mis-uses, sure. But saying "we have shit buggy garbage in random write functions, so we'll just paper over it"? No.
functions, so we'll just paper over it"? No.
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