Re: [PATCH 2/3] Keys: Use RCU to manage session keyring pointer

[David Howells]

Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The attached patch uses RCU to manage the session keyring pointer in struct
> >  signal_struct.
> 
> So are these patches dependent upon the
> keys-use-rcu-to-manage-session-keyring-pointer work?

This patch (2/3) shouldn't be dependent on that. It does extra RCU-age on a
different pointer entirely. The other RCU-age patch deals with specific key
types.

However, the third patch adds extra stuff into keyring support, and so is
RCU'd keyrings dependent.

David
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