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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:00:11 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Uclinux-dist-devel] [PATCH] FLAT: fix uninitialized ptr with 
	shared libs
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 16:48, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> should be cleaned up to apply to the master branch
>
> Hmm. Can somebody explain why we even bother to test bprm.cred for NULL
> that second time?

Bernd and/or David will have to cover this one

the previous discussion was here, but i dont think it answers the
questions you've raised:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hardware.blackfin.kernel.devel/1905
-mike