kernel-fxtec-pro1x/Documentation
David Howells 8f92054e7c CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner comment
Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check by removing the following validation
condition:

	lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held()

as commit_creds() does not take the tasklist_lock, and nor do most of the
functions that call it, so this check is pointless and it can prevent
detection of the RCU lock not being held if the tasklist_lock is held.

Instead, add the following validation condition:

	task->exit_state >= 0

to permit the access if the target task is dead and therefore unable to change
its own credentials.

Fix __task_cred()'s comment to:

 (1) discard the bit that says that the caller must prevent the target task
     from being deleted.  That shouldn't need saying.

 (2) Add a comment indicating the result of __task_cred() should not be passed
     directly to get_cred(), but rather than get_task_cred() should be used
     instead.

Also put a note into the documentation to enforce this point there too.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-29 15:16:18 -07:00
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ABI Revert "PCI: create function symlinks in /sys/bus/pci/slots/N/" 2010-06-11 13:08:37 -07:00
accounting
acpi ACPI, APEI, EINJ injection parameters support 2010-05-19 22:42:08 -04:00
aoe
arm ARM: SAMSUNG: Documentation: add documentation on GPIO code 2010-05-28 19:31:31 +09:00
auxdisplay
blackfin Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
block Documentation: fix block/biodoc.txt dma mapping description 2010-03-08 09:11:07 +01:00
blockdev
cdrom
cgroups memcg: update documentation 2010-05-27 09:12:43 -07:00
connector Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
console doc: fix console doc typo 2010-02-24 13:51:32 +01:00
cpu-freq
cpuidle
cris
crypto
development-process Documentation/development-process: add staging & mmotm info 2010-05-24 07:30:55 -07:00
device-mapper dm: document when snapshot has finished merging 2010-03-06 02:29:56 +00:00
DocBook Merge branch 'v4l_for_2.6.35' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 2010-06-04 15:38:12 -07:00
driver-model Fix spelling of 'platform' in comments and doc 2010-02-05 12:22:34 +01:00
dvb Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
early-userspace
fault-injection lkdtm: add debugfs access and loosen KPROBE ties 2010-03-06 11:26:32 -08:00
fb fbdev: rename imacfb.txt to efifb.txt and change imacfb to efifb. 2010-04-07 08:38:02 -07:00
filesystems Merge branch 'master' into for-linus 2010-06-04 13:22:30 -05:00
firmware_class
frv
hwmon hwmon: (ltc4245) Read only one GPIO pin 2010-05-27 19:59:02 +02:00
i2c Documentation/i2c: Checkpatch cleanup 2010-06-03 11:33:50 +02:00
i2o
ia64
ide
infiniband
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-05-20 09:20:59 -07:00
ioctl Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client 2010-03-19 09:43:06 -07:00
isdn gigaset: small documentation improvement 2010-02-26 01:24:22 -08:00
ja_JP
kbuild Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2010-06-01 08:55:52 -07:00
kdump
ko_KR
kvm KVM: MMU: Segregate shadow pages with different cr0.wp 2010-05-19 11:41:09 +03:00
laptops Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86 2010-05-21 17:13:24 -07:00
lguest Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
m68k
make
mips
misc-devices
mn10300
mtd
namespaces
netlabel Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
networking Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2010-05-20 21:04:44 -07:00
parisc
PCI Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2010-05-21 18:58:52 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: dev_node removal (core) 2010-05-10 10:23:17 +02:00
power Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2010-05-21 18:58:52 -07:00
powerpc Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2010-05-21 11:17:05 -07:00
pps
prctl
RCU Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-05-18 08:27:54 -07:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus 2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
scheduler sched: Remove USER_SCHED from documentation 2010-04-02 20:12:01 +02:00
scsi Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
serial ldisc: new dcd_change() method for line disciplines 2010-03-12 15:52:43 -08:00
sh
sound Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 2010-05-20 09:41:44 -07:00
sparc
spi spi/ep93xx: implemented driver for Cirrus EP93xx SPI controller 2010-05-25 00:23:16 -06:00
sysctl mm: compaction: add a tunable that decides when memory should be compacted and when it should be reclaimed 2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
telephony
thermal
timers Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c: only build on X86 2010-06-01 10:05:19 -07:00
trace Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-05-20 09:20:59 -07:00
uml
usb Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6 2010-05-20 21:26:12 -07:00
video4linux V4L/DVB: Documentation: Add the Philips FQ1236 MK5 to video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner 2010-07-08 16:50:05 -03:00
vm numa: update Documentation/vm/numa, add memoryless node info 2010-05-27 09:12:57 -07:00
w1 Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
watchdog watchdog: docs: add an entry for imx2_wdt 2010-07-01 16:02:55 +00:00
wimax
x86 x86, numa: Remove configurable node size support for numa emulation 2010-02-15 14:34:18 -08:00
zh_CN
.gitignore add random binaries to .gitignore 2010-04-08 11:34:34 +02:00
00-INDEX documentation: fix almost duplicate filenames (IO/io-mapping.txt) 2010-07-20 17:49:30 +00:00
applying-patches.txt
atomic_ops.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
bad_memory.txt
basic_profiling.txt
binfmt_misc.txt
braille-console.txt
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
BUG-HUNTING
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt documentation: fix almost duplicate filenames (IO/io-mapping.txt) 2010-07-20 17:49:30 +00:00
cachetlb.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
Changes netfilter: xtables: remove xt_string revision 0 2010-03-25 17:04:57 +01:00
circular-buffers.txt Document Linux's circular buffering capabilities 2010-03-24 16:31:22 -07:00
CodingStyle
cpu-hotplug.txt
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt
credentials.txt CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner comment 2010-07-29 15:16:18 -07:00
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
dell_rbu.txt
devices.txt driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading 2010-05-25 15:08:26 -07:00
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO: add ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN description 2010-05-27 09:12:53 -07:00
DMA-API.txt Documentation: rename PCI-DMA-mapping.txt to DMA-API-HOWTO.txt 2010-03-12 15:52:43 -08:00
DMA-attributes.txt
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
dmaengine.txt
dontdiff Merge branch 'for-linus-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-kconfig 2010-02-25 14:43:57 -08:00
dynamic-debug-howto.txt
edac.txt Documentation/edac.txt: Reflect the sysfs changes at the document 2010-05-10 11:49:30 -03:00
eisa.txt doc: fix Defaultd -> Defaults typo in EISA doc 2010-02-05 12:22:39 +01:00
email-clients.txt Documentation/email-clients.txt: update gmail information 2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
feature-removal-schedule.txt ACPI / Sleep: Allow the NVS saving to be skipped during suspend to RAM 2010-07-24 23:26:09 -04:00
flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gcov.txt
gpio.txt gpio: introduce gpio_request_one() and friends 2010-03-06 11:26:48 -08:00
highuid.txt
HOWTO Documentation/HOWTO: update git home URL 2010-04-22 15:24:56 -07:00
hw_random.txt
init.txt init/main.c: improve usability in case of init binary failure 2010-03-06 11:26:29 -08:00
initrd.txt
Intel-IOMMU.txt
intel_txt.txt Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-05-20 09:20:59 -07:00
io-mapping.txt
io_ordering.txt
iostats.txt
IPMI.txt ipmi: add parameter to limit CPU usage in kipmid 2010-03-12 15:52:39 -08:00
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isapnp.txt
java.txt
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
kernel-docs.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
kernel-parameters.txt ACPI / Sleep: Allow the NVS saving to be skipped during suspend to RAM 2010-07-24 23:26:09 -04:00
keys-request-key.txt
keys.txt
kmemcheck.txt
kmemleak.txt
kobject.txt kobject: documentation: Update to refer to kset-example.c. 2010-03-19 07:12:20 -07:00
kprobes.txt Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-05-20 09:20:59 -07:00
kref.txt
ldm.txt
leds-class.txt
leds-lp3944.txt
local_ops.txt
lockdep-design.txt
lockstat.txt
logo.gif
logo.txt
magic-number.txt
Makefile Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files 2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
ManagementStyle
mca.txt
md.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
memory-barriers.txt Document Linux's circular buffering capabilities 2010-03-24 16:31:22 -07:00
memory-hotplug.txt
memory.txt
mono.txt
mutex-design.txt Rename .text.lock to .text..lock. 2010-03-03 11:26:00 +01:00
nmi_watchdog.txt
nommu-mmap.txt
numastat.txt
oops-tracing.txt panic: Add taint flag TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND ('I') 2010-05-19 08:37:43 +01:00
padata.txt Add a document describing the padata interface 2010-05-14 09:18:55 -06:00
parport-lowlevel.txt
parport.txt
pi-futex.txt
pnp.txt doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc 2010-02-05 12:22:44 +01:00
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt
prio_tree.txt
rbtree.txt rbtree: Add support for augmented rbtrees 2010-02-18 15:40:56 -08:00
rfkill.txt Document the rfkill sysfs ABI 2010-03-10 17:09:33 -05:00
robust-futex-ABI.txt
robust-futexes.txt
rt-mutex-design.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
rt-mutex.txt
rtc.txt
SAK.txt
SecurityBugs
SELinux.txt
serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
sgi-visws.txt
slow-work.txt
SM501.txt
Smack.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
sparse.txt doc: Change urls for sparse 2010-04-27 22:59:07 +02:00
spinlocks.txt
stable_api_nonsense.txt
stable_kernel_rules.txt Documentation: -stable rules: upstream commit ID requirement reworded 2010-04-22 15:24:56 -07:00
SubmitChecklist Documentation: update SubmitChecklist for O=objdir and kconfig testing 2010-05-24 07:31:20 -07:00
SubmittingDrivers Documentation: SubmittingDrivers: Resources 2010-05-27 09:12:43 -07:00
SubmittingPatches
svga.txt
sysfs-rules.txt Fix typos in comments 2010-03-16 11:47:56 +01:00
sysrq.txt Input: Documentation/sysrq.txt - update KEY_SYSRQ info 2010-05-19 10:14:15 -07:00
tomoyo.txt
unaligned-memory-access.txt
unicode.txt
unshare.txt
VGA-softcursor.txt
vgaarbiter.txt
video-output.txt
volatile-considered-harmful.txt Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt: correct cpu_relax() documentation 2010-03-24 16:31:20 -07:00
zorro.txt