linux-kernel - [PATCH] Restore shmid as inode# to fix /proc/pid/maps ABI breakage

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Date:	Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:31:14 -0700
From:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: [PATCH] Restore shmid as inode# to fix /proc/pid/maps ABI breakage

Andrew,

Can you include this in -mm ?

Thanks,
Badari

shmid used to be stored as inode# for shared memory segments. Some of
the proc-ps tools use this from /proc/pid/maps.  Recent cleanups
to newseg() changed it.  This patch sets inode number back to shared 
memory id to fix breakage.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>

Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4/ipc/shm.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22-rc4.orig/ipc/shm.c	2007-06-08 15:17:20.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc4/ipc/shm.c	2007-06-08 15:19:38.000000000 -0700
@@ -397,6 +397,11 @@ static int newseg (struct ipc_namespace 
 	shp->shm_nattch = 0;
 	shp->id = shm_buildid(ns, id, shp->shm_perm.seq);
 	shp->shm_file = file;
+	/*
+	 * shmid gets reported as "inode#" in /proc/pid/maps.
+	 * proc-ps tools use this. Changing this will break them.
+	 */
+	file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_ino = shp->id;
 
 	ns->shm_tot += numpages;
 	shm_unlock(shp);


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