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Date:      Sun, 28 Mar 2004 10:10:02 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet in_pcb.c in_pcb.h ip_divert.c tcp_syncache.c tcp_usrreq.c udp_usrreq.c src/sys/netinet6 in6_pcb.c in6_pcb.h in6_src.c udp6_output.c udp6_usrreq.c
Message-ID:  <20040328081002.GW8930@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040327214816.10933A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <4066159C.7030102@elischer.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040327214816.10933A-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 09:52:57PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
+> The credential is only used during the functions, and the reference is
+> owned by the calling thread for the duration of the calls.  This change
+> basically moves the td->td_ucred dereference to the caller, rather than
+> doing them in the function.  It should be no less safe than the existing
+> code, and since td_ucred is a thread-local reference, it should be safe
+> assuming curthread=3D=3Dtd in the caller.

The only place I've found, where curthread !=3D td, is NFS code, where
thread0 is used instead of curthread, but it should be also safe.

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