linux-kernel - Re: [Patch 4/21] Make fill

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Date:	Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:52:35 +0530
From:	"Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki@...ibm.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Daisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 4/21] Make fill_psinfo generic

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:55:00 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@...ibm.com> wrote:
> > +       /*
> > +        * If we are dumping core for "another task"
> > +        * we can't use copy_from_user().
> > +        */
> > +       if (p->group_leader == current->group_leader) {
> 
> This is totally bogus. "group_leader" has absolutely nothing to do
> with whether the process shares the address space. It's about signal
> sharing etc.
> 
> The way to check whether they share the same address space is to check
> whether "mm" is the same.
> 

OK. I will make use of the mm here.

Thanks
Suzuki


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