From: David Howells Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:39:19 +0000 (+1100) Subject: CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds X-Git-Tag: v2.6.29-rc1~588^2^2~28 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c69e8d9c01db2adc503464993c358901c9af9de4;p=pandora-kernel.git CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds. This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b) seeing deallocated memory. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: James Morris Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: James Morris --- Reading git-diff-tree failed