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Commit 41089b6d authored by Alexey Dobriyan's avatar Alexey Dobriyan Committed by Linus Torvalds
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proc: save 2 atomic ops on write to "/proc/*/attr/*"

Code checks if write is done by current to its own attributes.
For that get/put pair is unnecessary as it can be done under RCU.

Note: rcu_read_unlock() can be done even earlier since pointer to a task
is not dereferenced. It depends if /proc code should look scary or not:

	rcu_read_lock();
	task = pid_task(...);
	rcu_read_unlock();
	if (!task)
		return -ESRCH;
	if (task != current)
		return -EACCESS:

P.S.: rename "length" variable.	Code like this

	length = -EINVAL;

should not exist.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180627200218.GF18113@avx2


Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent a44937fe
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