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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/Kconfig | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/base.c | 5 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/Kconfig b/fs/proc/Kconfig index d751fcb637bb..1ade1206bb89 100644 --- a/fs/proc/Kconfig +++ b/fs/proc/Kconfig @@ -75,3 +75,9 @@ config PROC_PAGE_MONITOR config PROC_CHILDREN bool "Include /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children file" default n + help + Provides a fast way to retrieve first level children pids of a task. See + <file:Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt> for more information. + + Say Y if you are running any user-space software which takes benefit from + this interface. For example, rkt is such a piece of software. diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index 87782e874b6a..aa50d1ac28fc 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -243,6 +243,11 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_cmdline_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, len1 = arg_end - arg_start; len2 = env_end - env_start; + /* Empty ARGV. */ + if (len1 == 0) { + rv = 0; + goto out_free_page; + } /* * Inherently racy -- command line shares address space * with code and data. |