vfs: split out access_override_creds()

Split out a helper that overrides the credentials in preparation for
actually doing the access check.

This prepares for the next patch that optionally disables the creds
override.
Suggested-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

fs/open.c

@@ -345,21 +345,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(fallocate, int, fd, int, mode, loff_t, offset, loff_t, len)
  * We do this by temporarily clearing all FS-related capabilities and
  * switching the fsuid/fsgid around to the real ones.
  */
-long do_faccessat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int mode)
+static const struct cred *access_override_creds(void)
 {
 	const struct cred *old_cred;
 	struct cred *override_cred;
-	struct path path;
-	struct inode *inode;
-	int res;
-	unsigned int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
-
-	if (mode & ~S_IRWXO)	/* where's F_OK, X_OK, W_OK, R_OK? */
-		return -EINVAL;
 
 	override_cred = prepare_creds();
 	if (!override_cred)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return NULL;
 
 	override_cred->fsuid = override_cred->uid;
 	override_cred->fsgid = override_cred->gid;
@@ -394,6 +387,28 @@ long do_faccessat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int mode)
 	override_cred->non_rcu = 1;
 
 	old_cred = override_creds(override_cred);
+
+	/* override_cred() gets its own ref */
+	put_cred(override_cred);
+
+	return old_cred;
+}
+
+long do_faccessat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int mode)
+{
+	struct path path;
+	struct inode *inode;
+	int res;
+	unsigned int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
+	const struct cred *old_cred;
+
+	if (mode & ~S_IRWXO)	/* where's F_OK, X_OK, W_OK, R_OK? */
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	old_cred = access_override_creds();
+	if (!old_cred)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 retry:
 	res = user_path_at(dfd, filename, lookup_flags, &path);
 	if (res)
@@ -436,7 +451,6 @@ long do_faccessat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int mode)
 	}
 out:
 	revert_creds(old_cred);
-	put_cred(override_cred);
 	return res;
 }