From 6b9c7ed84837753a436415097063232422e29a35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 01:02:33 -0800 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/ptrace.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/ptrace.h') diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h index b2b3dba1298d..864791996b5f 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); -- cgit v1.2.2