Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] ptrace: Provide ___ptrace_may_access() that can be applied on arbitrary tasks

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Sep 04 2018 - 12:13:19 EST


On Tue, 4 Sep 2018, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> +/**
> + * ___ptrace_may_access - variant of ptrace_may_access that can be used
> + * between two arbitrary tasks
> + * @curr: source task

That's a pretty shitty name, really. If @curr is supposed to be an
arbitrary task, then please rename it in a way which makes that entirely
clear. curr is too close to current. Just grep for 'task_struct \*curr'.

Thanks,

tglx