linux-kernel - [PATCH] Fix bad reference in comment inside __sigqueue

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Date:	Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:01:55 +0400
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Fix bad reference in comment inside __sigqueue_alloc

The comment references the switch_user() function, which
doesn't exist. The real function this code is synchronizing
with is the switch_uid() one.

Can save some time for tags-jumping/grepping :)

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

---

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index e661b01..bd880ed 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static struct sigqueue *__sigqueue_alloc(struct task_struct *t, gfp_t flags,
 	struct user_struct *user;
 
 	/*
-	 * In order to avoid problems with "switch_user()", we want to make
+	 * In order to avoid problems with "switch_uid()", we want to make
 	 * sure that the compiler doesn't re-load "t->user"
 	 */
 	user = t->user;
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