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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: task_struct reference counting
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On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 04:59:27PM +0200, Francesco Casadei wrote:
> How one is supposed to handle the reference count of a task_struct from a 
> kernel module?

I don't think you are supposed to do anything that'd need to grab a
task_struct from modular code.