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Date:   Tue, 5 May 2020 14:30:07 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] exec: Rename flush_old_exec begin_new_exec
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On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 02:46:01PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> There is and has been for a very long time been a lot more going on in
> flush_old_exec than just flushing the old state.  After the movement
> of code from setup_new_exec there is a whole lot more going on than
> just flushing the old executables state.
> 
> Rename flush_old_exec to begin_new_exec to more accurately reflect
> what this function does.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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Kees Cook