[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>

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)
                 prev = &odn->dn_next;
         }
 
-        error = f_setown(filp, current->pid, 0);
+        error = __f_setown(filp, task_pid(current), PIDTYPE_PID, 0);
         if (error)
                 goto out_free;