> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:06:47 -0400
> From: Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com>
> 
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 11:18, Matthew Dempsky wrote:
> > Recently guenther changed user credentials to be a per-process
> > resource, but kept a per-thread cache of credentials that get
> > refreshed at each system call entry.  All of the get*[ug]id() system
> > calls simply access the thread cached credentials, and possibly
> > copyout() them if necessary, so they're safe to mark as NOLOCK.
> 
> Is copyout safe to call with no lock?

yes

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