Re: [PATCH] ptrace: tracehook_unsafe_exec: remove the stale comment

From: Roland McGrath
Date: Thu Apr 23 2009 - 19:28:40 EST


> tracehook_unsafe_exec() doesn't need task_lock(), remove the old comment.

Please make it instead say that cred_exec_mutex is held by the caller
through the exec. That locking takes the place of what task_lock() was
doing before (e.g. interlock with PTRACE_ATTACH).


Thanks,
Roland
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