linux-kernel - [RFC][PATCH] ps command race fix take 3 [4/4] proc_root

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Date:	Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:04:26 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, saito.tadashi@...t.fujitsu.com,
	ak@...e.de
Subject: [RFC][PATCH] ps command race fix take 3 [4/4] 
 proc_root_open/releae/llseek

implements open/release/llseek ops are needed by new proc_pid_readdir()

llseek()'s offset is specified by 'bytes' but /proc root doesn't handle
file->f_pos as bytes. So I disabled llseek for /proc for now.

Signed-Off-By: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

 fs/proc/root.c |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 33 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.18-rc4/fs/proc/root.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-rc4.orig/fs/proc/root.c
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc4/fs/proc/root.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
 #include <linux/smp_lock.h>
+#include <linux/watch_head.h>
 
 #include "internal.h"
 
@@ -118,14 +119,46 @@ static int proc_root_readdir(struct file
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static int proc_root_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
+{
+	struct watch_head *wh;
+	wh = kzalloc(sizeof(*wh), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (wh) {
+		filp->private_data = wh;
+		return 0;
+	}
+	return -ENOMEM;
+}
+
+static int proc_root_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
+{
+	struct watch_head *wh;
+	wh = filp->private_data;
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	wh_get_and_remove_watcher(wh);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+	kfree(wh);
+	filp->private_data = NULL;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static loff_t proc_root_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t off, int pos)
+{
+	/* pos is bytes...but we don't use fp->f_pos as bytes... */
+	return -ENOTSUPP;
+}
+
 /*
  * The root /proc directory is special, as it has the
  * <pid> directories. Thus we don't use the generic
  * directory handling functions for that..
  */
 static struct file_operations proc_root_operations = {
+	.open		 = proc_root_open,
 	.read		 = generic_read_dir,
 	.readdir	 = proc_root_readdir,
+	.release	= proc_root_release,
+	.llseek		= proc_root_llseek,
 };
 
 /*

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