procfs task exe symlink

The kernel implements readlink of /proc/pid/exe by getting the file from
the first executable VMA.  Then the path to the file is reconstructed and
reported as the result.

Because of the VMA walk the code is slightly different on nommu systems.
This patch avoids separate /proc/pid/exe code on nommu systems.  Instead of
walking the VMAs to find the first executable file-backed VMA we store a
reference to the exec'd file in the mm_struct.

That reference would prevent the filesystem holding the executable file
from being unmounted even after unmapping the VMAs.  So we track the number
of VM_EXECUTABLE VMAs and drop the new reference when the last one is
unmapped.  This avoids pinning the mounted filesystem.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: improve comments]
[yamamoto@valinux.co.jp: fix dup_mmap]
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc:"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/proc_fs.h b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
index 9b6c935f69cf..65f2299b772b 100644
--- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 
 struct net;
 struct completion;
-
 /*
  * The proc filesystem constants/structures
  */
@@ -206,6 +205,12 @@ extern void proc_net_remove(struct net *net, const char *name);
 extern struct proc_dir_entry *proc_net_mkdir(struct net *net, const char *name,
 	struct proc_dir_entry *parent);
 
+/* While the {get|set|dup}_mm_exe_file functions are for mm_structs, they are
+ * only needed to implement /proc/<pid>|self/exe so we define them here. */
+extern void set_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm, struct file *new_exe_file);
+extern struct file *get_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm);
+extern void dup_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *oldmm, struct mm_struct *newmm);
+
 #else
 
 #define proc_root_driver NULL
@@ -255,6 +260,19 @@ static inline void pid_ns_release_proc(struct pid_namespace *ns)
 {
 }
 
+static inline void set_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
+				   struct file *new_exe_file)
+{}
+
+static inline struct file *get_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static inline void dup_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *oldmm,
+	       			   struct mm_struct *newmm)
+{}
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
 
 #if !defined(CONFIG_PROC_KCORE)