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Al Viro committed 1bbc55131e5
procfs: get rid of ancient BS in pid_revalidate() uses First of all, calling pid_revalidate() in the end of <pid>/* lookups is *not* about closing any kind of races; that used to be true once upon a time, but these days those comments are actively misleading. Especially since pid_revalidate() doesn't even do d_drop() on failure anymore. It doesn't matter, anyway, since once pid_revalidate() starts returning false, ->d_delete() of those dentries starts saying "don't keep"; they won't get stuck in dcache any longer than they are pinned. These calls cannot be just removed, though - the side effect of pid_revalidate() (updating i_uid/i_gid/etc.) is what we are calling it for here. Let's separate the "update ownership" into a new helper (pid_update_inode()) and use it, both in lookups and in pid_revalidate() itself. The comments in pid_revalidate() are also out of date - they refer to the time when pid_revalidate() used to call d_drop() directly... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>