On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:04:31 +0200 (CEST)
Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
>
> remove GPL restriction from set_dumpable()
>
> Commit 6c5d5238 introduced a set_dumpable() function that replaced
> the direct access to mm_struct->dumpable. I don't think there is any
> reason to restrict this function to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() -- previously
> any module could modify current->mm->dumpable without any
> resitrictions, so it makes a little sense to turn this into 'internal
> interface' at once.
>
but modules really have no business setting process's dumpable flags...
other than very internal modules.
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