Re: [PATCH] CRED: Holding a spinlock does not imply the holding ofRCU read lock

[James Morris]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, David Howells wrote:

> From: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Change the credentials documentation to make it clear that the RCU read lock
> must be explicitly held when accessing credentials pointers in some other task
> than current.  Holding a spinlock does not implicitly hold the RCU read lock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>


Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next


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James Morris
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