Re: [PATCH] make checkpatch warn about access to current->comm

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> 
> Suggest using the get_task_comm accessor versus direct access to
> current->comm.

I think "current->comm" is fine, and not racy.

It only gets racy when you ask for the name of _another_ task.

And quite frankly, I don't think anybody but /proc does that anyway. I 
think this whole "get_task_comm()" thing is overrated. Most people are 
better off doing just "current->comm".

		Linus
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