[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>
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c
index 4b19d04..8d88eee 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1422,14 +1422,7 @@
lock_kernel();
ret = -EPERM;
if (request == PTRACE_TRACEME) {
- /* are we already being traced? */
- if (current->ptrace & PT_PTRACED)
- goto out;
- ret = security_ptrace(current->parent, current);
- if (ret)
- goto out;
- current->ptrace |= PT_PTRACED;
- ret = 0;
+ ret = ptrace_traceme();
goto out;
}