get_current_cred(9)

🎀 get_current_cred(9) 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual! This page is short, sweet, and very "trust the process" 💅

✨ NAME ✨

get_current_cred — Get the current task's subjective credentials.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

get_current_cred

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So get_current_cred gets the subjective credentials of the current task, and it pins them so that they can't go away. That's the whole vibe ✨

And bestie, listen: accessing the current task's credentials directly is not permitted 🙈

👑 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_cred(9)
• current_real_cred(9)
• __task_cred(9)
• get_current_user(9)
• get_current_groups(9)

mwah 💋 source/version: ./include/linux; date: October 2026. That's the whole page, bestie — slay responsibly 🫶