procfs: Don't cache a pid in the root inode.

Now that we have s_fs_info pointing to our pid namespace
the original reason for the proc root inode having a struct
pid is gone.

Caching a pid in the root inode has led to some complicated
code.  Now that we don't need the struct pid, just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>

Author: ebiederm

fs/proc/base.c

@@ -2714,19 +2714,12 @@ static int fake_filldir(void *buf, const char *name, int namelen,
 /* for the /proc/ directory itself, after non-process stuff has been done */
 int proc_pid_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir)
 {
-	unsigned int nr;
-	struct task_struct *reaper;
 	struct tgid_iter iter;
 	struct pid_namespace *ns;
 	filldir_t __filldir;
 
 	if (filp->f_pos >= PID_MAX_LIMIT + TGID_OFFSET)
-		goto out_no_task;
-	nr = filp->f_pos - FIRST_PROCESS_ENTRY;
-
-	reaper = get_proc_task(filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode);
-	if (!reaper)
-		goto out_no_task;
+		goto out;
 
 	ns = filp->f_dentry->d_sb->s_fs_info;
 	iter.task = NULL;
@@ -2747,8 +2740,6 @@ int proc_pid_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir)
 	}
 	filp->f_pos = PID_MAX_LIMIT + TGID_OFFSET;
 out:
-	put_task_struct(reaper);
-out_no_task:
 	return 0;
 }
 

fs/proc/root.c

@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ static struct dentry *proc_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 	int err;
 	struct super_block *sb;
 	struct pid_namespace *ns;
-	struct proc_inode *ei;
 	char *options;
 
 	if (flags & MS_KERNMOUNT) {
@@ -130,13 +129,6 @@ static struct dentry *proc_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 		sb->s_flags |= MS_ACTIVE;
 	}
 
-	ei = PROC_I(sb->s_root->d_inode);
-	if (!ei->pid) {
-		rcu_read_lock();
-		ei->pid = get_pid(find_pid_ns(1, ns));
-		rcu_read_unlock();
-	}
-
 	return dget(sb->s_root);
 }