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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2006-10-02 02:17:15 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-02 07:57:14 -0700 |
| commit | 609d7fa9565c754428d2520cac2accc9052e1245 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c5114ec3720166fe99ce3885e8767929a8a84e0 /include/linux/fs.h | |
| parent | bde0d2c98bcfc9acc83ac79c33a6ac1335b95a92 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-609d7fa9565c754428d2520cac2accc9052e1245.tar.gz lwn-609d7fa9565c754428d2520cac2accc9052e1245.zip | |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 2e29a2edaeec..91c0b2a32a90 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -684,7 +684,8 @@ extern struct block_device *I_BDEV(struct inode *inode); struct fown_struct { rwlock_t lock; /* protects pid, uid, euid fields */ - int pid; /* pid or -pgrp where SIGIO should be sent */ + struct pid *pid; /* pid or -pgrp where SIGIO should be sent */ + enum pid_type pid_type; /* Kind of process group SIGIO should be sent to */ uid_t uid, euid; /* uid/euid of process setting the owner */ int signum; /* posix.1b rt signal to be delivered on IO */ }; @@ -880,8 +881,10 @@ extern void kill_fasync(struct fasync_struct **, int, int); /* only for net: no internal synchronization */ extern void __kill_fasync(struct fasync_struct *, int, int); +extern int __f_setown(struct file *filp, struct pid *, enum pid_type, int force); extern int f_setown(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg, int force); extern void f_delown(struct file *filp); +extern pid_t f_getown(struct file *filp); extern int send_sigurg(struct fown_struct *fown); /* |