Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:28:56 -0500 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/12] export kernel call get_task_comm() |
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On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 08:28:52PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:44:16 -0800 (PST) > > > From current you can just dereference current->comm, and access from > > > other threads from drivers is a bad idea. > > You need to take the locks for it - which get_task_comm encapsulates.
Not for current->comm, which is the only thing it cares about.
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