Re: [PATCH,RESEND -mm 2/2] umh && creds: kill subprocess_info->cred logic

From: David Howells
Date: Mon Mar 08 2010 - 08:20:18 EST


Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Now that nobody ever changes subprocess_info->cred we can kill this
> member and related code. ____call_usermodehelper() always runs in the
> context of freshly forked kernel thread, it has the proper ->cred
> copied from its parent kthread, keventd.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
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