From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Helper functions in base.c like proc_pident_readdir and proc_pident_lookup
assume the directories have an associated task, and cannot currently be used
on the /proc root directory because it does not have such a task.

This small changes allows for base.c to be simplified and later when multiple
pid spaces are introduced it makes getting the needed context information
trivial.

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

 fs/proc/root.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff -puN fs/proc/root.c~proc-give-the-root-directory-a-task fs/proc/root.c
--- a/fs/proc/root.c~proc-give-the-root-directory-a-task
+++ a/fs/proc/root.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
 #include <linux/smp_lock.h>
+#include <linux/mount.h>
 
 #include "internal.h"
 
@@ -28,6 +29,17 @@ struct proc_dir_entry *proc_sys_root;
 static int proc_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 	int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data, struct vfsmount *mnt)
 {
+	if (proc_mnt) {
+		/* Seed the root directory with a pid so it doesn't need
+		 * to be special in base.c.  I would do this earlier but
+		 * the only task alive when /proc is mounted the first time
+		 * is the init_task and it doesn't have any pids.
+		 */
+		struct proc_inode *ei;
+		ei = PROC_I(proc_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root->d_inode);
+		if (!ei->pid)
+			ei->pid = find_get_pid(1);
+	}
 	return get_sb_single(fs_type, flags, data, proc_fill_super, mnt);
 }
 
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