linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] Intel PTI implementaiton of MIPI 1149.7.

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Message-ID: <20110420104654.6b457142@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:46:54 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	james_p_freyensee@...ux.intel.com,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, suhail.ahmed@...el.com,
	christophe.guerard@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Intel PTI implementaiton of MIPI 1149.7.

> is small enough that it shouldn't be an issue.  Otherwise there's nothing 
> protecting sizeof(current->comm) from changing without holding 
> task_lock(current).

The C language definition for one - sizeof() is a constant at compile time
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