[PATCH] trivial cleanup to proc_check_chroot()

[Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>]

Hey Andrew! Folks!

the proc_check_chroot() function does the check
in a very unintuitive way (keeping a copy of the
argument, then modifying the argument), and has
uncommented sideeffects ...

please consider this 'trivial' cleanup so that
nobody gets confused there (as I was) ...

Signed-off-by: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>

---

--- linux-2.6.16-rc2/fs/proc/base.c	2006-02-07 11:53:02 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc2-mnt/fs/proc/base.c	2006-02-10 12:37:35 +0100
@@ -531,6 +531,8 @@ static int proc_oom_score
 
 /* If the process being read is separated by chroot from the reading process,
  * don't let the reader access the threads.
+ *
+ * note: this does dput(root) and mntput(vfsmnt) on exit.
  */
 static int proc_check_chroot(struct dentry *root, struct vfsmount *vfsmnt)
 {
@@ -537,6 +539,7 @@ static int proc_check_chroot
 	struct dentry *de, *base;
 	struct vfsmount *our_vfsmnt, *mnt;
 	int res = 0;
+
 	read_lock(&current->fs->lock);
 	our_vfsmnt = mntget(current->fs->rootmnt);
 	base = dget(current->fs->root);
@@ -546,11 +549,11 @@ static int proc_check_chroot
 	de = root;
 	mnt = vfsmnt;
 
-	while (vfsmnt != our_vfsmnt) {
-		if (vfsmnt == vfsmnt->mnt_parent)
+	while (mnt != our_vfsmnt) {
+		if (mnt == mnt->mnt_parent)
 			goto out;
-		de = vfsmnt->mnt_mountpoint;
-		vfsmnt = vfsmnt->mnt_parent;
+		de = mnt->mnt_mountpoint;
+		mnt = mnt->mnt_parent;
 	}
 
 	if (!is_subdir(de, base))
@@ -561,7 +564,7 @@ exit:
 	dput(base);
 	mntput(our_vfsmnt);
 	dput(root);
-	mntput(mnt);
+	mntput(vfsmnt);
 	return res;
 out:
 	spin_unlock(&vfsmount_lock);
-
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