Re: [PATCH 1/2] CRED: Rename cred_exec_mutex to reflect that it'sa guard against ptrace

[James Morris]

On Fri, 8 May 2009, David Howells wrote:

> Rename cred_exec_mutex to reflect that it's a guard against foreign
> intervention on a process's credential state, such as is made by ptrace().  The
> attachment of a debugger to a process affects execve()'s calculation of the new
> credential state - _and_ also setprocattr()'s calculation of that state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next


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James Morris
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