[PATCH] use ptrace_get_task_struct in various places
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:02:33 +0000 (01:02 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Mon, 9 Jan 2006 04:13:51 +0000 (20:13 -0800)
commit6b9c7ed84837753a436415097063232422e29a35
tree6ad59a7bebcec359e08b3a211701781db819450d
parent6b34350f490b2c8508717541ec1fd2bbaadded94
[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>
12 files changed:
arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c
arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c
arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c
arch/m32r/kernel/ptrace.c
arch/mips/kernel/ptrace32.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c
arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c
arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c
arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c
arch/x86_64/ia32/ptrace32.c
include/linux/ptrace.h
kernel/ptrace.c