[PATCH] proc_pid_make_inode() fix
In case if proc_pid_make_inode() steps on exiting task we do iput() and return NULL. Unfortunately, in that case inode->i_ino doesn't look like inumber of a per-process inode and we take the wrong path in proc_delete_inode(). I.e. do dput(PDE(inode)). Which is left uninitialized... We used to get out with that almost by accident - that code worked only because we had zeroed out one field of union and that guaranteed that another field would be NULL. It worked, but broke at the first occasion.
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