On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 6:13 PM Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> wrote: > > task_lock is needed to protect task->files.
Hah. Right you are. I found a few cases where we didn't do that, but I
hadn't noticed that they were all of the pattern
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
so "tsk->files" was safe for that reason..
So never mind.
Linus

