linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] ptrace: ptrace_attach: check PF_KTHREAD + exit

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Date:	Wed, 6 May 2009 03:08:37 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, chrisw@...s-sol.org,
	roland@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ptrace: ptrace_attach: check PF_KTHREAD +
	exit_state instead of ->mm

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:47:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> These patches make a mess of utrace-core.patch.  Do we really want to do that?

Yes.  All these patches from Oleg are preparations for actually doing
a utrace merge in a sane way.  I don't really think utrace should be
in -mm at this point where active ptrace work is going on.

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