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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:29:17 -0500
From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 -mm 2/2] umh && creds: kill subprocess_info->cred logic
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On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:04:35PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Now that nobody ever changes subprocess_info->cred we can kill this
> member and related code. ____call_usermodehelper() always runs in the
> context of freshly forked kernel thread, it has the proper ->cred
> copied from its parent kthread, keventd.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>