X-Git-Url: http://pileus.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fcredentials.txt;h=995baf379c076770962a84268fde19b527caa0be;hb=e225567960db50e9810a152c8621c7a6ed94de71;hp=a2db352870036ba062aa177ce450d0d491f7d8c8;hpb=e4f2e5eaac8f5f903ca4a8cc944d26e68745d6bb;p=~andy%2Flinux

diff --git a/Documentation/credentials.txt b/Documentation/credentials.txt
index a2db3528700..995baf379c0 100644
--- a/Documentation/credentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/credentials.txt
@@ -417,6 +417,9 @@ reference on them using:
 This does all the RCU magic inside of it.  The caller must call put_cred() on
 the credentials so obtained when they're finished with.
 
+ [*] Note: The result of __task_cred() should not be passed directly to
+     get_cred() as this may race with commit_cred().
+
 There are a couple of convenience functions to access bits of another task's
 credentials, hiding the RCU magic from the caller: