[PATCH] remove duplicated code from proc and ptrace

Extract common code used by ptrace_attach() and may_ptrace_attach()
into a separate function.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h
index 2afdafb62123..dc6f3647bfbc 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ extern void __ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child,
                           struct task_struct *new_parent);
 extern void __ptrace_unlink(struct task_struct *child);
 extern void ptrace_untrace(struct task_struct *child);
+extern int ptrace_may_attach(struct task_struct *task);
 
 static inline void ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child,
                                struct task_struct *new_parent)