From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] comm: ext4: Protect task->comm access by using get_task_comm()
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 16:42:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110504164257.5bb61879.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110504163657.52dca3fc.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Also. As direct access to current->comm is now verboten, we should add
a checkpatch rule to shout at people when they do it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-04 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-28 4:03 [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Improve task->comm locking situation John Stultz
2011-04-28 4:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] comm: Introduce comm_lock seqlock to protect task->comm access John Stultz
2011-04-28 4:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] comm: timerstats: Protect task->comm access by using get_task_comm() John Stultz
2011-04-28 4:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] comm: ext4: " John Stultz
2011-04-28 21:35 ` David Rientjes
2011-05-04 23:36 ` Andrew Morton
2011-05-04 23:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-05-04 23:55 ` John Stultz
2011-05-07 16:30 ` Ted Ts'o
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