From f6c7a1f34e92b0b561024ead9fa70623683025e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 02:17:07 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] proc: give the root directory a task

Helper functions in base.c like proc_pident_readdir and proc_pident_lookup
assume the directories have an associated task, and cannot currently be used
on the /proc root directory because it does not have such a task.

This small changes allows for base.c to be simplified and later when multiple
pid spaces are introduced it makes getting the needed context information
trivial.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 fs/proc/root.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/proc/root.c b/fs/proc/root.c
index 8901c65caca8..ffe66c38488b 100644
--- a/fs/proc/root.c
+++ b/fs/proc/root.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
 #include <linux/smp_lock.h>
+#include <linux/mount.h>
 
 #include "internal.h"
 
@@ -28,6 +29,17 @@ struct proc_dir_entry *proc_sys_root;
 static int proc_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 	int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data, struct vfsmount *mnt)
 {
+	if (proc_mnt) {
+		/* Seed the root directory with a pid so it doesn't need
+		 * to be special in base.c.  I would do this earlier but
+		 * the only task alive when /proc is mounted the first time
+		 * is the init_task and it doesn't have any pids.
+		 */
+		struct proc_inode *ei;
+		ei = PROC_I(proc_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root->d_inode);
+		if (!ei->pid)
+			ei->pid = find_get_pid(1);
+	}
 	return get_sb_single(fs_type, flags, data, proc_fill_super, mnt);
 }
 
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