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Restore shmid as inode# to fix /proc/pid/maps ABI breakage
authorBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:15:59 +0000 (10:15 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:16:15 +0000 (13:16 -0700)
shmid used to be stored as inode# for shared memory segments. Some of
the proc-ps tools use this from /proc/pid/maps.  Recent cleanups
to newseg() changed it.  This patch sets inode number back to shared
memory id to fix breakage.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ipc/shm.c

index 4fefbad7096d539d90345621ac6419d2ab904b85..02faa54dbf5a2369cbd01ed464bfa3fcea686cad 100644 (file)
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -397,6 +397,11 @@ static int newseg (struct ipc_namespace *ns, key_t key, int shmflg, size_t size)
        shp->shm_nattch = 0;
        shp->id = shm_buildid(ns, id, shp->shm_perm.seq);
        shp->shm_file = file;
+       /*
+        * shmid gets reported as "inode#" in /proc/pid/maps.
+        * proc-ps tools use this. Changing this will break them.
+        */
+       file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_ino = shp->id;
 
        ns->shm_tot += numpages;
        shm_unlock(shp);