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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2008-02-08 04:18:35 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-08 09:22:24 -0800 |
| commit | c6caeb7c4544608e8ae62731334661fc396c7f85 (patch) | |
| tree | 3afabe64dedd7bf7d0f88f7612e5f468c8d55c1d /fs | |
| parent | 488e5bc4560d0b510c1ddc451c51a6cc14e3a930 (diff) | |
| download | linux-c6caeb7c4544608e8ae62731334661fc396c7f85.tar.bz2 | |
proc: fix the threaded /proc/self
Long ago when the CLONE_THREAD support first went it someone thought it
would be wise to point /proc/self at /proc/<tgid> instead of /proc/<pid>.
Given that /proc/<tgid> can return information about a very different task
(if enough things have been unshared) then our current process /proc/<tgid>
seems blatantly wrong. So far I have yet to think up an example where the
current behavior would be advantageous, and I can see several places where
it is seriously non-intuitive.
We may be stuck with the current broken behavior for backwards
compatibility reasons but lets try fixing our ancient bug for the 2.6.25
time frame and see if anyone screams.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Guillaume Chazarain" <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
Cc: "Pavel Emelyanov" <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/base.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index 75b1979749a5..de07e959ff2f 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -2102,22 +2102,22 @@ static int proc_self_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char __user *buffer, int buflen) { struct pid_namespace *ns = dentry->d_sb->s_fs_info; - pid_t tgid = task_tgid_nr_ns(current, ns); + pid_t pid = task_pid_nr_ns(current, ns); char tmp[PROC_NUMBUF]; - if (!tgid) + if (!pid) return -ENOENT; - sprintf(tmp, "%d", tgid); + sprintf(tmp, "%d", pid); return vfs_readlink(dentry,buffer,buflen,tmp); } static void *proc_self_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd) { struct pid_namespace *ns = dentry->d_sb->s_fs_info; - pid_t tgid = task_tgid_nr_ns(current, ns); + pid_t pid = task_pid_nr_ns(current, ns); char tmp[PROC_NUMBUF]; - if (!tgid) + if (!pid) return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); - sprintf(tmp, "%d", task_tgid_nr_ns(current, ns)); + sprintf(tmp, "%d", pid); return ERR_PTR(vfs_follow_link(nd,tmp)); } |