[PATCH] proc: Simplify the ownership rules for /proc
Currently in /proc if the task is dumpable all of files are owned by the tasks
effective users. Otherwise the files are owned by root. Unless it is the
/proc/<tgid>/ or /proc/<tgid>/task/<pid> directory in that case we always make
the directory owned by the effective user.
However the special case for directories is pointless except as a way to read
the effective user, because the permissions on both of those directories are
world readable, and executable.
/proc/<tgid>/status provides a much better way to read a processes effecitve
userid, so it is silly to try to provide that on the directory.
So this patch simplifies the code by removing a pointless special case and
gets us one step closer to being able to remove the hard coded /proc inode
numbers.
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>
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 0762bc3..fa0e6be 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1371,7 +1371,7 @@
ei->type = ino;
inode->i_uid = 0;
inode->i_gid = 0;
- if (ino == PROC_TGID_INO || ino == PROC_TID_INO || task_dumpable(task)) {
+ if (task_dumpable(task)) {
inode->i_uid = task->euid;
inode->i_gid = task->egid;
}
@@ -1400,7 +1400,7 @@
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
struct task_struct *task = proc_task(inode);
if (pid_alive(task)) {
- if (proc_type(inode) == PROC_TGID_INO || proc_type(inode) == PROC_TID_INO || task_dumpable(task)) {
+ if (task_dumpable(task)) {
inode->i_uid = task->euid;
inode->i_gid = task->egid;
} else {
