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From: James Morris on 26 Apr 2010 19:00
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, David Howells wrote:

> From: Serge E. Hallyn <serue(a)us.ibm.com>
>
> 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(a)us.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells(a)redhat.com>


Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next


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