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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: don't take tasklist to get/set ->last_siginfo
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Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>

> Change ptrace_getsiginfo/ptrace_setsiginfo to use lock_task_sighand()
> without tasklist_lock. Perhaps it makes sense to make a singler helper
> with "bool rw" argument.

Let's not bother now since we will change this more later anyway.


Thanks,
Roland