[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>
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Eric W. Biederman
2006-10-02 02:17:15 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent bde0d2c98b
commit 609d7fa956
8 changed files with 59 additions and 34 deletions

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@@ -1514,7 +1514,7 @@ int fcntl_setlease(unsigned int fd, struct file *filp, long arg)
goto out_unlock;
}
error = f_setown(filp, current->pid, 0);
error = __f_setown(filp, task_pid(current), PIDTYPE_PID, 0);
out_unlock:
unlock_kernel();
return error;