Thomas Gleixner 86fc80f16e capabilities: Use RCU to protect task lookup in sys_capget ...

cap_get_target_pid() protects the task lookup with tasklist_lock.
security_capget() is called under tasklist_lock as well but
tasklist_lock does not protect anything there. The capabilities are
protected by RCU already.

So tasklist_lock only protects the lookup and prevents the task going
away, which can be done with rcu_read_lock() as well.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

2009-12-10 09:42:48 +11:00

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