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Date:   Tue, 4 Sep 2018 18:21:00 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] ptrace: Provide ___ptrace_may_access() that can
 be applied on arbitrary tasks
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On Tue, 4 Sep 2018, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2018, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > +/**
> > + * ___ptrace_may_access - variant of ptrace_may_access that can be used
> > + * between two arbitrary tasks
> > + * @curr: source task
> 
> That's a pretty shitty name, really. If @curr is supposed to be an
> arbitrary task, then please rename it in a way which makes that entirely
> clear. curr is too close to current. Just grep for 'task_struct \*curr'.

Something like '*tracer' would make it entirely clear what's going on.

Thanks,

	tglx