Re: [PATCH] fs: Add flags to __d_path for suppressing suffix andmapping /proc/self

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:11:37PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> This patch allows __d_path() to
> (1) suppress " (deleted)" suffix if dentry was already deleted

This part looks fine to me.

> (2) convert /proc/PID to /proc/self if dentry is under /proc/self directory

This not.  If you security module is broken enough to require special
casing /proc/pid entries that's your business, but there's not reason
to put ugly hacks into core code for that.

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