The patch titled procfs: Fix listing of /proc/NOT_A_TGID/task has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is procfs-fix-listing-of-proc-not_a_tgid-task.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: procfs: Fix listing of /proc/NOT_A_TGID/task From: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@xxxxxxxx> Listing /proc/PID/task were PID is not a TGID should not result in duplicated entries. [g ~]$ pidof thunderbird-bin 2751 [g ~]$ ls /proc/2751/task 2751 2770 2771 2824 2826 2834 2835 2851 2853 [g ~]$ ls /proc/2770/task 2751 2770 2771 2824 2826 2834 2835 2851 2853 2770 2771 2824 2826 2834 2835 2851 2853 [g ~]$ Signed-off-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@xxxxxxxx> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/base.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/proc/base.c~procfs-fix-listing-of-proc-not_a_tgid-task fs/proc/base.c --- a/fs/proc/base.c~procfs-fix-listing-of-proc-not_a_tgid-task +++ a/fs/proc/base.c @@ -2332,13 +2332,23 @@ static int proc_task_readdir(struct file { struct dentry *dentry = filp->f_path.dentry; struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode; - struct task_struct *leader = get_proc_task(inode); + struct task_struct *leader = NULL; struct task_struct *task; int retval = -ENOENT; ino_t ino; int tid; unsigned long pos = filp->f_pos; /* avoiding "long long" filp->f_pos */ + task = get_proc_task(inode); + if (!task) + goto out_no_task; + rcu_read_lock(); + if (pid_alive(task)) { + leader = task->group_leader; + get_task_struct(leader); + } + rcu_read_unlock(); + put_task_struct(task); if (!leader) goto out_no_task; retval = 0; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from guichaz@xxxxxxxx are procfs-fix-listing-of-proc-not_a_tgid-task.patch factor-outstanding-i-o-error-handling.patch factor-outstanding-i-o-error-handling-tidy.patch sync_sb_inodes-propagate-errors.patch block_write_full_page-handle-enospc.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html