Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.5 fix/improve get_pid()

[Andries Brouwer]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 02:34:17PM -0500, Paul Larson wrote:

> I suspect that it would actually require more than just this.  I tried
> this with the same test I've been using and had several failed attepmts
> at low numbers by getting wierd unexpected signals (like 28), and then
> one that ran for a much longer time and produced an oops with random
> garbage to the console (trying to extract this now).

Not much more. Around 2.3.40 I have run with a large PID_MAX for a long time.
The patch that I submitted is still visible on the net various places
(I just tried  Andries pid_max  and found a few).

At that time the only other change (other than <linux/threads.h> and
kernel/fork.c) was in proc/base.c, namely

	-#define fake_ino(pid,ino) (((pid)<<16)|(ino)) 
	+#define fake_ino(pid,ino) (((1)<<16)|(ino)) 

and

	- if (!pid) 
	-         goto out; 
	- if (pid & 0xffff0000) 
	+ if (pid <= 0 || pid >= PID_MAX) 
                  goto out; 

(plucked from google output).

I have not checked precisely what change is appropriate in procfs today.

Andries