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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2006-01-08 01:02:33 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-08 20:13:51 -0800
commit6b9c7ed84837753a436415097063232422e29a35 (patch)
tree6ad59a7bebcec359e08b3a211701781db819450d /include
parent6b34350f490b2c8508717541ec1fd2bbaadded94 (diff)
[PATCH] use ptrace_get_task_struct in various places
The ptrace_get_task_struct() helper that I added as part of the ptrace consolidation is useful in variety of places that currently opencode it. Switch them to the common helpers. Add a ptrace_traceme() helper that needs to be explicitly called, and simplify the ptrace_get_task_struct() interface. We don't need the request argument now, and we return the task_struct directly, using ERR_PTR() for error returns. It's a bit more code in the callers, but we have two sane routines that do one thing well now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ptrace.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h
index b2b3dba1298..864791996b5 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@
extern long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request, long addr, long data);
+extern struct task_struct *ptrace_get_task_struct(pid_t pid);
+extern int ptrace_traceme(void);
extern int ptrace_readdata(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long src, char __user *dst, int len);
extern int ptrace_writedata(struct task_struct *tsk, char __user *src, unsigned long dst, int len);
extern int ptrace_attach(struct task_struct *tsk);