Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755737Ab1BHUZf (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:25:35 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:58749 "EHLO localhost.localdomain" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754742Ab1BHUZe (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:25:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 20:28:52 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com Cc: "Christoph Hellwig" , gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, suhail.ahmed@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] export kernel call get_task_comm() Message-ID: <20110208202852.160c080b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <45773.10.23.16.85.1297194256.squirrel@linux.intel.com> References: <1297193697-5417-1-git-send-email-james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com> <1297193697-5417-2-git-send-email-james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com> <20110208193857.GA8839@infradead.org> <45773.10.23.16.85.1297194256.squirrel@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.0; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 475 Lines: 10 On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:44:16 -0800 (PST) > > From current you can just dereference current->comm, and access from > > other threads from drivers is a bad idea. You need to take the locks for it - which get_task_comm encapsulates. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/