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.
Fix:
--- linux/fs/proc/base.c Tue Feb 19 22:33:04 2002
+++ linux/fs/proc/base.c.fix Fri Mar 15 08:42:19 2002
@@ -730,6 +730,7 @@
return inode;
out_unlock:
+ ei->pde = NULL;
iput(inode);
return NULL;
}
-
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