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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>
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Eric W. Biederman 2008-02-08 04:18:35 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 488e5bc456
commit c6caeb7c45
1 changed files with 6 additions and 6 deletions
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@ -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));
}