From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 fs/proc/base.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/proc/base.c~proc-use-sane-permission-checks-on-the-proc-pid-fd-fix-2 fs/proc/base.c
--- devel/fs/proc/base.c~proc-use-sane-permission-checks-on-the-proc-pid-fd-fix-2	2006-03-06 18:09:03.000000000 -0800
+++ devel-akpm/fs/proc/base.c	2006-03-06 18:09:06.000000000 -0800
@@ -536,7 +536,8 @@ static int proc_fd_access_allowed(struct
 			/* For a special task simply check the capability */
 			allowed = capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE);
 	}
-	put_task_struct(task);
+	if (task)
+		put_task_struct(task);
 	return allowed;
 }
 
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