Re: + sys_getppid-oopses-on-debug-kernel.patch added to -mm tree

[Muli Ben-Yehuda]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:51:38PM +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:

> There's a note right above the function that explains it:
>  * NOTE! This depends on the fact that even if we _do_
>  * get an old value of "parent", we can happily dereference
>  * the pointer (it was and remains a dereferencable kernel pointer
>  * no matter what): we just can't necessarily trust the result
>  * until we know that the parent pointer is valid.

Even without getting into just how ugly this is, is it really worth
it?

Cheers,
Muli
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