Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:50:16 +1000 (EST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CRED: Holding a spinlock does not imply the holding of RCU read lock |
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, David Howells wrote:
> From: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> > > Change the credentials documentation to make it clear that the RCU read lock > must be explicitly held when accessing credentials pointers in some other task > than current. Holding a spinlock does not implicitly hold the RCU read lock. > > Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> > Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Applied to git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next
-- James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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