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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2016-11-19 02:13:41 +0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2016-11-19 02:13:41 +0300
commit917fef6f7ee8b2fe852692ac49771342bfef9433 (patch)
treeb5932aab90d449841803b6f8679a4564ca2a6eaf /fs/proc/array.c
parent0c9aa209579d41c9b8bf1fc39ce042bea2ec422d (diff)
parentbc33b0ca11e3df467777a4fa7639ba488c9d4911 (diff)
downloadlinux-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.c9
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);