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authorSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>2010-04-26 11:58:49 +0100
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2010-04-27 08:49:03 +1000
commitb03df87d119f50715891dcc09e487f6ae5c029f1 (patch)
tree69ef56146350a2f7d7bc7743e856490cc14bb7a5 /security
parent98ec4373bab1d839f794e9a4edc29f77eb9d897e (diff)
CRED: Holding a spinlock does not imply the holding of RCU read lock
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@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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