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Revert "vfs: show unreachable paths in getcwd and proc"

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Because it caused a chroot ttyname regression in 2.6.36.

As of 2.6.36 ttyname does not work in a chroot.  It has already been
reported that screen breaks, and for me this breaks an automated
distribution testsuite, that I need to preserve the ability to run the
existing binaries on for several more years.  glibc 2.11.3 which has a
fix for this is not an option.

The root cause of this breakage is:

    commit 8df9d1a414
    Author: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
    Date:   Tue Aug 10 11:41:41 2010 +0200

    vfs: show unreachable paths in getcwd and proc

    Prepend "(unreachable)" to path strings if the path is not reachable
    from the current root.

    Two places updated are
     - the return string from getcwd()
     - and symlinks under /proc/$PID.

    Other uses of d_path() are left unchanged (we know that some old
    software crashes if /proc/mounts is changed).

    Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

So remove the nice sounding, but ultimately ill advised change to how
/proc/fd symlinks work.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric W. Biederman 2010-12-05 15:51:21 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 11e8896474
commit 7b2a69ba70
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@ -1574,7 +1574,7 @@ static int do_proc_readlink(struct path *path, char __user *buffer, int buflen)
if (!tmp)
return -ENOMEM;
pathname = d_path_with_unreachable(path, tmp, PAGE_SIZE);
pathname = d_path(path, tmp, PAGE_SIZE);
len = PTR_ERR(pathname);
if (IS_ERR(pathname))
goto out;