linux/fs/proc/inode.c
Eric W. Biederman ece4748015 proc: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mount points
commit eb6d38d542 upstream.

Add a new function proc_create_mount_point that when used to creates a
directory that can not be added to.

Add a new function is_empty_pde to test if a function is a mount
point.

Update the code to use make_empty_dir_inode when reporting
a permanently empty directory to the vfs.

Update the code to not allow adding to permanently empty directories.

Update /proc/openprom and /proc/fs/nfsd to be permanently empty directories.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
2015-07-15 10:01:06 +01:00

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