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

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Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:07:18 -0700
From:	J Freyensee <james_p_freyensee@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.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.

On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 10:46 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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

K, thanks, I'll look at re-working these couple lines of code.


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