[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/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 4b6770e9806d..4aaf91951a43 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1527,7 +1527,7 @@ static int futex_fd(u32 __user *uaddr, int signal)
         filp->f_mapping = filp->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mapping;
 
         if (signal) {
-                err = f_setown(filp, current->pid, 1);
+                err = __f_setown(filp, task_pid(current), PIDTYPE_PID, 1);
                 if (err < 0) {
                         goto error;
                 }