Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 4 Sep 2018 18:21:00 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | 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
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