current_cred(9)

💖 NAME 💖

current_cred — access the current task's subjective credentials. This is the current_cred(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, bestie. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

current_cred

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so current_cred gives you the subjective credentials of the current task. It’s RCU-safe, since nobody else can modify it. The way that safety just exists because no one else can touch it? Iconic. 💅

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• Kernel file ./include/linux/cred.h
• get_group_info(9)
• put_group_info(9)
• get_cred_many(9)
• put_cred_many(9)
• current_real_cred(9)
• __task_cred(9)
• get_current_cred(9)
• get_current_user(9)
• get_current_groups(9)

🫶 cute little sign-off: source/version is ./include/linux, dated October 2026. Mwah. 💖