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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] fs/proc/task_mmu.c: shift "priv->task = NULL"
 from m_start() to m_stop()
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:18:28 +0300
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 09:47:07PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> 1. There is no reason to reset ->tail_vma in m_start(), if we return
>    IS_ERR_OR_NULL() it won't be used.
> 
> 2. m_start() also clears priv->task to ensure that m_stop() won't use
>    the stale pointer if we fail before get_task_struct(). But this is
>    ugly and confusing, move this initialization in m_stop().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

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 Kirill A. Shutemov