linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 -mm 2/2] umh && creds: kill subprocess

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Message-ID: <20100226202917.GD31078@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>
Date:	Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:29:17 -0500
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 -mm 2/2] umh && creds: kill subprocess_info->cred logic

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:04:35PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Now that nobody ever changes subprocess_info->cred we can kill this
> member and related code. ____call_usermodehelper() always runs in the
> context of freshly forked kernel thread, it has the proper ->cred
> copied from its parent kthread, keventd.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>

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