Long ago when the CLONE_THREAD support first went it someone
thought it would be wise to point /proc/self at /proc/<tgid>
instead of /proc/<pid>.

Given that /proc/<tgid> can return information about a very different
task (if enough things have been unshared) then our current process
/proc/<tgid> seems blatantly wrong.  So far I have yet to think up
an example where the current behavior would be advantageous, and
I can see several places where it is seriously non-intuitive.

We may be stuck with the current broken behavior for backwards
compatibility reasons but lets try fixing our ancient bug for the
2.6.25 time frame and see if anyone screams.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 fs/proc/base.c |   12 ++++++------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 34a1821..8502436 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -2050,22 +2050,22 @@ static int proc_self_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, 
char __user *buffer,
                              int buflen)
 {
        struct pid_namespace *ns = dentry->d_sb->s_fs_info;
-       pid_t tgid = task_tgid_nr_ns(current, ns);
+       pid_t pid = task_pid_nr_ns(current, ns);
        char tmp[PROC_NUMBUF];
-       if (!tgid)
+       if (!pid)
                return -ENOENT;
-       sprintf(tmp, "%d", tgid);
+       sprintf(tmp, "%d", pid);
        return vfs_readlink(dentry,buffer,buflen,tmp);
 }
 
 static void *proc_self_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
 {
        struct pid_namespace *ns = dentry->d_sb->s_fs_info;
-       pid_t tgid = task_tgid_nr_ns(current, ns);
+       pid_t pid = task_pid_nr_ns(current, ns);
        char tmp[PROC_NUMBUF];
-       if (!tgid)
+       if (!pid)
                return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
-       sprintf(tmp, "%d", task_tgid_nr_ns(current, ns));
+       sprintf(tmp, "%d", pid);
        return ERR_PTR(vfs_follow_link(nd,tmp));
 }
 
-- 
1.5.3.rc6.17.g1911

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