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, 0 insertions, 34 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/task_nommu.c b/fs/proc/task_nommu.c
index 8011528518b..4b733f10845 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_nommu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_nommu.c
@@ -103,40 +103,6 @@ int task_statm(struct mm_struct *mm, int *shared, int *text,
 	return size;
 }
 
-int proc_exe_link(struct inode *inode, struct path *path)
-{
-	struct vm_list_struct *vml;
-	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
-	struct task_struct *task = get_proc_task(inode);
-	struct mm_struct *mm = get_task_mm(task);
-	int result = -ENOENT;
-
-	if (!mm)
-		goto out;
-	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-
-	vml = mm->context.vmlist;
-	vma = NULL;
-	while (vml) {
-		if ((vml->vma->vm_flags & VM_EXECUTABLE) && vml->vma->vm_file) {
-			vma = vml->vma;
-			break;
-		}
-		vml = vml->next;
-	}
-
-	if (vma) {
-		*path = vma->vm_file->f_path;
-		path_get(&vma->vm_file->f_path);
-		result = 0;
-	}
-
-	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-	mmput(mm);
-out:
-	return result;
-}
-
 /*
  * display mapping lines for a particular process's /proc/pid/maps
  */