On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Chris Wright wrote:
>
> Daniel Jacobowitz noticed that sys_capget is not behaving properly when
> called with pid of 0. It is supposed to return current capabilities,
> not those of swapper. Also cleaned up some duplicate code from a merge
> error. Patch is tested, please apply.
This is not correct. You drop the tasklist_lock before you actually set
read the capabilities, which means that by the time you read them, the
task you looked up may not be there any more.
Linus
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