From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH,RESEND -mm 2/2] umh && creds: kill subprocess_info->cred logic
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:19:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19935.1268054385@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100305231054.GB22614@redhat.com>
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> Now that nobody ever changes subprocess_info->cred we can kill this
> member and related code. ____call_usermodehelper() always runs in the
> context of freshly forked kernel thread, it has the proper ->cred
> copied from its parent kthread, keventd.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-08 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-25 18:15 [PATCH -mm 1/2] umh && creds: convert call_usermodehelper_keys() to use subprocess_info->init() Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-26 18:00 ` David Howells
2010-02-26 18:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-26 18:41 ` David Howells
2010-02-26 18:52 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-26 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 -mm 0/2] umh && creds: kill sub_info->cred Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-26 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 -mm 1/2] umh && creds: convert call_usermodehelper_keys() to use subprocess_info->init() Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-26 20:28 ` Neil Horman
2010-02-26 20:42 ` David Howells
2010-02-26 20:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-26 23:24 ` David Howells
2010-03-05 22:52 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-05 23:09 ` [PATCH,RESEND " Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-08 13:19 ` David Howells
2010-03-08 17:44 ` Neil Horman
2010-03-05 23:10 ` [PATCH,RESEND -mm 2/2] umh && creds: kill subprocess_info->cred logic Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-08 13:19 ` David Howells [this message]
2010-03-08 17:47 ` Neil Horman
2010-02-26 20:04 ` [PATCH v2 " Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-26 20:29 ` Neil Horman
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