Re: [PATCH 01/12] export kernel call get_task_comm()

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Feb 08 2011 - 15:25:38 EST


On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:44:16 -0800 (PST)
> > From current you can just dereference current->comm, and access from
> > other threads from drivers is a bad idea.

You need to take the locks for it - which get_task_comm encapsulates.
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