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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2010-08-04 15:14:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2010-08-04 15:14:38 +0200 |
| commit | d790d4d583aeaed9fc6f8a9f4d9f8ce6b1c15c7f (patch) | |
| tree | 854ab394486288d40fa8179cbfaf66e8bdc44b0f /Documentation/credentials.txt | |
| parent | 73b2c7165b76b20eb1290e7efebc33cfd21db1ca (diff) | |
| parent | 3a09b1be53d23df780a0cd0e4087a05e2ca4a00c (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
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diff --git a/Documentation/credentials.txt b/Documentation/credentials.txt index a2db35287003..995baf379c07 100644 --- a/Documentation/credentials.txt +++ b/Documentation/credentials.txt @@ -417,6 +417,9 @@ reference on them using: This does all the RCU magic inside of it. The caller must call put_cred() on the credentials so obtained when they're finished with. + [*] Note: The result of __task_cred() should not be passed directly to + get_cred() as this may race with commit_cred(). + There are a couple of convenience functions to access bits of another task's credentials, hiding the RCU magic from the caller: |