tree 18e465cd852cc8a5105fea4e08b6a63503ee8077
parent c5f2420a063fcc5a4cd6610c3ef6934827853001
author Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> 1159780728 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> 1159801044 -0700

[PATCH] proc: Make the generation of the self symlink table driven

This patch generalizes the concept of files in /proc that are related to
processes but live in the root directory of /proc

Ideally this would reuse infrastructure from the rest of the process specific
parts of proc but unfortunately security_task_to_inode must not be called on
files that are not strictly per process.  security_task_to_inode really needs
to be reexamined as the security label can change in important places that we
are not currently catching, but I'm not certain that simplifies this problem.

By at least matching the structure of the rest of proc we get more idiom reuse
and it becomes easier to spot problems in the way things are put together.

Later things like /proc/mounts are likely to be moved into proc_base as well.
If union mounts are ever supported we may be able to make /proc a union mount,
and properly split it into 2 filesystems.

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>