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SubjectRe: [PATCH] usb: Fixup usb so it uses struct pid
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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:

> On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 10:42:10PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> The problem by remember a user space process by it's pid it is
>> possible that the process will exit, pid wrap around will occur and a
>> different process will appear in it's place. Holding a reference
>> to a struct pid avoid that problem, and paves the way
>> for implementing a pid namespace.
>>
>> Also since usb is the only user of kill_proc_info_as_uid
>> rename kill_proc_info_as_uid to kill_pid_info_as_uid
>> and have the new version take a struct pid.
>>
>> This patch is against 2.6.18-rc6-mm1.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
>
> Looks good to me.
>
> Do you want me to take this in my tree, or will you be going through
> Andrew, like your other, related pid stuff? If through Andrew, please
> feel free to add:
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Sure. I think going through Andrew makes sense. As I probably have
a helper function or two in Andrews tree that hasn't hit wider distribution.

Eric
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