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author | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2016-11-19 02:13:41 +0300 |
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committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2016-11-19 02:13:41 +0300 |
commit | 917fef6f7ee8b2fe852692ac49771342bfef9433 (patch) | |
tree | b5932aab90d449841803b6f8679a4564ca2a6eaf /fs/proc/array.c | |
parent | 0c9aa209579d41c9b8bf1fc39ce042bea2ec422d (diff) | |
parent | bc33b0ca11e3df467777a4fa7639ba488c9d4911 (diff) | |
download | linux-917fef6f7ee8b2fe852692ac49771342bfef9433.tar.xz |
Merge tag 'v4.9-rc4' into sound
Bring in -rc4 patches so I can successfully merge the sound doc changes.
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/array.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/array.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c index 89600fd5963d..81818adb8e9e 100644 --- a/fs/proc/array.c +++ b/fs/proc/array.c @@ -412,10 +412,11 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns, mm = get_task_mm(task); if (mm) { vsize = task_vsize(mm); - if (permitted) { - eip = KSTK_EIP(task); - esp = KSTK_ESP(task); - } + /* + * esp and eip are intentionally zeroed out. There is no + * non-racy way to read them without freezing the task. + * Programs that need reliable values can use ptrace(2). + */ } get_task_comm(tcomm, task); |