Re: ptrace: selinux_bprm_committed_creds: simplify__wake_up_parent() code and s/parent/real_parent/

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Wed Apr 29 2009 - 10:13:43 EST


Damn. Forgot to add "[PATCH]" to the subject, hopefully not a problem.

On 04/29, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> selinux_bprm_committed_creds() should wake up ->real_parent, not ->parent.

Afaics, with this patch the only user of ->parent outside of ptrace.c & co
is arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c:format_mca_init_stack(). Hopefully ->parent will
die soon.

Oleg.

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