linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] tracing: remove igrab() iput() call from uprobes.c

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Date:   Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:29:22 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>
Cc:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-team@...com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Howard McLauchlan <hmclauchlan@...com>,
        Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>,
        Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] tracing: remove igrab() iput() call from uprobes.c

On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:08:47 -0700
Song Liu <songliubraving@...com> wrote:

> For uprobes.c sisde, igrab() is not necessary. So we removed it and

You don't need to send another patch, but what is the above sentence
suppose to say?

-- Steve

> added comments on requirements to callers of uprobe_register().