Re: [PATCH 12/17] proc/fd: In fdinfo seq_show don't use get_files_struct

Linus Torvalds
2020-08-18T01:28:25Z

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 6:13 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
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> task_lock is needed to protect task->files.

Hah. Right you are. I found a few cases where we didn't do that, but I
hadn't noticed that they were all of the pattern

struct task_struct *tsk = current;

so "tsk->files" was safe for that reason..

So never mind.

Linus