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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] creds: kill __task_cred()->task_is_dead() validation
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:52:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120411185252.GC22543@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1obqyh960.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>

On 04/11, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> writes:
>
> A small nit.  The subject should be:
> "Remove task_is_dead from __task_cred() validation."
> there is no method __task_cred()->task_is_dead().

I often use this notation to show the caller and the callee,
but I don't really mind.

> > Unfortunately, we can't kill task_is_dead() right now, it has already
> > found the bugy users in drivers/staging/, the fix already exists.
>
> I would say task_is_dead() has already acquired buggy users in
> drivers/staging.

Argh, it least I shouldn't have said "bugy".

> As for the patch itself, and the direction of removing task_is_dead().
> It looks good from where I sit.
>
> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Thanks! I'll fix the subject/changelog and resend with your and
David's acks.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-11 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-10 19:45 [PATCH 0/1] 3rd resend: kill __task_cred()->task_is_dead() Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-10 19:46 ` [PATCH 1/1] creds: kill __task_cred()->task_is_dead() validation Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-11 10:09   ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-11 18:52     ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2012-04-11 10:41   ` David Howells

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