procfs: get rid of ancient BS in pid_revalidate() uses

First of all, calling pid_revalidate() in the end of <pid>/* lookups
is *not* about closing any kind of races; that used to be true once
upon a time, but these days those comments are actively misleading.
Especially since pid_revalidate() doesn't even do d_drop() on
failure anymore.  It doesn't matter, anyway, since once
pid_revalidate() starts returning false, ->d_delete() of those
dentries starts saying "don't keep"; they won't get stuck in
dcache any longer than they are pinned.

These calls cannot be just removed, though - the side effect of
pid_revalidate() (updating i_uid/i_gid/etc.) is what we are calling
it for here.

Let's separate the "update ownership" into a new helper (pid_update_inode())
and use it, both in lookups and in pid_revalidate() itself.

The comments in pid_revalidate() are also out of date - they refer to
the time when pid_revalidate() used to call d_drop() directly...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/internal.h b/fs/proc/internal.h
index 0f1692e63cb6..04a455b9ae69 100644
--- a/fs/proc/internal.h
+++ b/fs/proc/internal.h
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ extern const struct dentry_operations pid_dentry_operations;
 extern int pid_getattr(const struct path *, struct kstat *, u32, unsigned int);
 extern int proc_setattr(struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
 extern struct inode *proc_pid_make_inode(struct super_block *, struct task_struct *, umode_t);
-extern int pid_revalidate(struct dentry *, unsigned int);
+extern void pid_update_inode(struct task_struct *, struct inode *);
 extern int pid_delete_dentry(const struct dentry *);
 extern int proc_pid_readdir(struct file *, struct dir_context *);
 extern struct dentry *proc_pid_lookup(struct inode *, struct dentry *, unsigned int);