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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-12-12 17:28:58 -0800
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-12-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - A ptrace API cleanup series from Sergey Shtylyov - Fixes and cleanups for kexec from ye xingchen - nilfs2 updates from Ryusuke Konishi - squashfs feature work from Xiaoming Ni: permit configuration of the filesystem's compression concurrency from the mount command line - A series from Akinobu Mita which addresses bound checking errors when writing to debugfs files - A series from Yang Yingliang to address rapidio memory leaks - A series from Zheng Yejian to address possible overflow errors in encode_comp_t() - And a whole shower of singleton patches all over the place * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-12-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (79 commits) ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() hfsplus: fix bug causing custom uid and gid being unable to be assigned with mount rapidio: devices: fix missing put_device in mport_cdev_open kcov: fix spelling typos in comments hfs: Fix OOB Write in hfs_asc2mac hfs: fix OOB Read in __hfs_brec_find relay: fix type mismatch when allocating memory in relay_create_buf() ocfs2: always read both high and low parts of dinode link count io-mapping: move some code within the include guarded section kernel: kcsan: kcsan_test: build without structleak plugin mailmap: update email for Iskren Chernev eventfd: change int to __u64 in eventfd_signal() ifndef CONFIG_EVENTFD rapidio: fix possible UAF when kfifo_alloc() fails relay: use strscpy() is more robust and safer cpumask: limit visibility of FORCE_NR_CPUS acct: fix potential integer overflow in encode_comp_t() acct: fix accuracy loss for input value of encode_comp_t() linux/init.h: include <linux/build_bug.h> and <linux/stringify.h> rapidio: rio: fix possible name leak in rio_register_mport() rapidio: fix possible name leaks when rio_add_device() fails ...
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@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ fixes/update part 1.1 Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> June 9 2009
3.10 /proc/<pid>/timerslack_ns - Task timerslack value
3.11 /proc/<pid>/patch_state - Livepatch patch operation state
3.12 /proc/<pid>/arch_status - Task architecture specific information
+ 3.13 /proc/<pid>/fd - List of symlinks to open files
4 Configuring procfs
4.1 Mount options
@@ -2150,6 +2151,22 @@ AVX512_elapsed_ms
the task is unlikely an AVX512 user, but depends on the workload and the
scheduling scenario, it also could be a false negative mentioned above.
+3.13 /proc/<pid>/fd - List of symlinks to open files
+-------------------------------------------------------
+This directory contains symbolic links which represent open files
+the process is maintaining. Example output::
+
+ lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Sep 20 17:53 0 -> /dev/null
+ l-wx------ 1 root root 64 Sep 20 17:53 1 -> /dev/null
+ lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Sep 20 17:53 10 -> 'socket:[12539]'
+ lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Sep 20 17:53 11 -> 'socket:[12540]'
+ lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Sep 20 17:53 12 -> 'socket:[12542]'
+
+The number of open files for the process is stored in 'size' member
+of stat() output for /proc/<pid>/fd for fast access.
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+
Chapter 4: Configuring procfs
=============================