[PATCH] Re: Oops with kernel 2.4.5 on heavy disk traffic

[Alexander Viro]

	Please, apply. What's happing here is simple - we set i_ino by
PID and get something out of range of per-process inode. Confusion
follows... Fix: move initializing ->u.proc_i.task past the check.
Then proc_delete_inode() will be happy with it.
	Alois, Bryce - that ought to fix the oopsen you see.

--- linux/fs/proc/base.c.old	Sun Jun 10 11:15:55 2001
+++ linux/fs/proc/base.c	Sun Jun 10 11:21:51 2001
@@ -635,15 +635,14 @@
 	inode->i_mtime = inode->i_atime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
 	inode->i_ino = fake_ino(task->pid, ino);
 
-	inode->u.proc_i.file = NULL;
+	if (!task->pid)
+		goto out_unlock;
+
 	/*
 	 * grab the reference to task.
 	 */
-	inode->u.proc_i.task = task;
 	get_task_struct(task);
-	if (!task->pid)
-		goto out_unlock;
-
+	inode->u.proc_i.task = task;
 	inode->i_uid = 0;
 	inode->i_gid = 0;
 	if (ino == PROC_PID_INO || task->dumpable) {