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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2006-12-13 09:35:10 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-13 18:05:53 +0100
commita71113da44063b587b5a4c2fc94c948a14f2bb43 (patch)
treec2b804232dcda3e403d43977e7329c21e787e242 /fs/smbfs/smbiod.c
parent[PATCH] n_r3964: Use struct pid to track user space clients (diff)
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[PATCH] smbfs: Make conn_pid a struct pid
smbfs keeps track of the user space server process in conn_pid. This converts that track to use a struct pid instead of pid_t. This keeps us safe from pid wrap around issues and prepares the way for the pid namespace. 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 'fs/smbfs/smbiod.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/smbfs/smbiod.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/smbfs/smbiod.c b/fs/smbfs/smbiod.c
index e67540441288..89eaf31f1d46 100644
--- a/fs/smbfs/smbiod.c
+++ b/fs/smbfs/smbiod.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ int smbiod_retry(struct smb_sb_info *server)
{
struct list_head *head;
struct smb_request *req;
- pid_t pid = server->conn_pid;
+ struct pid *pid = get_pid(server->conn_pid);
int result = 0;
VERBOSE("state: %d\n", server->state);
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ int smbiod_retry(struct smb_sb_info *server)
/*
* Note: use the "priv" flag, as a user process may need to reconnect.
*/
- result = kill_proc(pid, SIGUSR1, 1);
+ result = kill_pid(pid, SIGUSR1, 1);
if (result) {
/* FIXME: this is most likely fatal, umount? */
printk(KERN_ERR "smb_retry: signal failed [%d]\n", result);
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ int smbiod_retry(struct smb_sb_info *server)
/* FIXME: The retried requests should perhaps get a "time boost". */
out:
+ put_pid(pid);
return result;
}