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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-audit@redhat.com, Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: PATCH [1/1]: audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:04:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21411.1300219487@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110315173810.GA12775@suse.de>

Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> wrote:

> Agree. Also I believe it is safe to use tsk->cred directly as tsk == current 
> or tsk is being created by copy_process.  

You can't quite access it like that without sparse throwing a warning.  The
pointer is marked with an __rcu attribute, so you need to use something like
this:

	cred = rcu_dereference_check(tsk->cred, (tsk == current ||
						 called_from_copy_process());

David

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-15 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-07 21:06 PATCH [1/1]: audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead Tony Jones
2011-03-08 18:02 ` David Howells
2011-03-10 20:25   ` Tony Jones
2011-03-11 16:33   ` David Howells
2011-03-15 17:38     ` Tony Jones
2011-03-15 17:44       ` Eric Paris
2011-03-15 20:11       ` David Howells
2011-03-17 18:11         ` Tony Jones
2011-03-21 13:57           ` Eric Paris
2011-04-27 13:12             ` Jiri Kosina
2011-04-27 16:26               ` Tony Jones
2011-03-15 20:04     ` David Howells [this message]

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