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Commit 444d0f62 authored by Davidlohr Bueso's avatar Davidlohr Bueso Committed by Linus Torvalds
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ipc: introduce lockless pre_down ipcctl



Various forms of ipc use ipcctl_pre_down() to retrieve an ipc object and
check permissions, mostly for IPC_RMID and IPC_SET commands.

Introduce ipcctl_pre_down_nolock(), a lockless version of this function.
The locking version is retained, yet modified to call the nolock version
without affecting its semantics, thus transparent to all ipc callers.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Tested-by: default avatarSedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 4d2bff5e
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