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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 15:21:52 -0400
From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
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To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] mm: use mm->exe_file instead of first VM_EXECUTABLE
 vma->vm_file
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On 4/7/2012 3:01 PM, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> Some security modules and oprofile still uses VM_EXECUTABLE for retrieving
> task's executable file, after this patch they will use mm->exe_file directly.
> mm->exe_file protected with mm->mmap_sem, so locking stays the same.
>
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
> Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>
> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
> Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: oprofile-list@lists.sf.net

For arch/tile:

Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>

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