Sargun Dhillon
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This introduces a function which can be used to fetch a file, given an arbitrary task. As long as the user holds a reference (refcnt) to the task_struct it is safe to call, and will either return NULL on failure, or a pointer to the file, with a refcnt. This patch is based on Oleg Nesterov's (cf. [1]) patch from September 2018. [1]: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20180915160423.GA31461@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me> Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200107175927.4558-2-sargun@sargun.me Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Linux kernel
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