proc: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mount points

Add a new function proc_create_mount_point that when used to creates a
directory that can not be added to.

Add a new function is_empty_pde to test if a function is a mount
point.

Update the code to use make_empty_dir_inode when reporting
a permanently empty directory to the vfs.

Update the code to not allow adding to permanently empty directories.

Update /proc/openprom and /proc/fs/nfsd to be permanently empty directories.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/inode.c b/fs/proc/inode.c
index 8272aaba1bb0..e3eb5524639f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/inode.c
+++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
@@ -423,6 +423,10 @@ struct inode *proc_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, struct proc_dir_entry *de)
                 inode->i_mtime = inode->i_atime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
                 PROC_I(inode)->pde = de;
 
+                if (is_empty_pde(de)) {
+                        make_empty_dir_inode(inode);
+                        return inode;
+                }
                 if (de->mode) {
                         inode->i_mode = de->mode;
                         inode->i_uid = de->uid;