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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2006-10-02 05:17:15 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-02 10:57:14 -0400
commit609d7fa9565c754428d2520cac2accc9052e1245 (patch)
tree1c5114ec3720166fe99ce3885e8767929a8a84e0 /fs/dnotify.c
parentbde0d2c98bcfc9acc83ac79c33a6ac1335b95a92 (diff)
[PATCH] file: modify struct fown_struct to use a struct pid
File handles can be requested to send sigio and sigurg to processes. By tracking the destination processes using struct pid instead of pid_t we make the interface safe from all potential pid wrap around problems. 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dnotify.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/dnotify.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dnotify.c b/fs/dnotify.c
index f932591df5a4..2b0442db67e0 100644
--- a/fs/dnotify.c
+++ b/fs/dnotify.c
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ int fcntl_dirnotify(int fd, struct file *filp, unsigned long arg)
92 prev = &odn->dn_next; 92 prev = &odn->dn_next;
93 } 93 }
94 94
95 error = f_setown(filp, current->pid, 0); 95 error = __f_setown(filp, task_pid(current), PIDTYPE_PID, 0);
96 if (error) 96 if (error)
97 goto out_free; 97 goto out_free;
98 98