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| author | Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> | 2010-08-02 17:24:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> | 2010-08-02 17:24:57 +0200 |
| commit | 6b0a2996a0c023d84bc27ec7528a6e54cb5ea264 (patch) | |
| tree | 9fa9a85d5d871b3cb3c28daf57d8ef8f05becd66 /Documentation/credentials.txt | |
| parent | xfs simplify and speed up direct I/O completions (diff) | |
| parent | Linux 2.6.35 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'v2.6.35'
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diff --git a/Documentation/credentials.txt b/Documentation/credentials.txt index a2db35287003..995baf379c07 100644 --- a/Documentation/credentials.txt +++ b/Documentation/credentials.txt @@ -417,6 +417,9 @@ reference on them using: This does all the RCU magic inside of it. The caller must call put_cred() on the credentials so obtained when they're finished with. + [*] Note: The result of __task_cred() should not be passed directly to + get_cred() as this may race with commit_cred(). + There are a couple of convenience functions to access bits of another task's credentials, hiding the RCU magic from the caller: |