From: Daniel Drake The pid directories in /proc/ currently return the wrong hardlink count - 3, when there are actually 4 : ".", "..", "fd", and "task". This is easy to notice using find(1): cd /proc/ find In the output, you'll see a message similar to: find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for .: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86031 I also noticed that CONFIG_SECURITY can add a 5th: attr, and performed a similar fix on the task directories too. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/proc/base.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/proc/base.c~procfs-fix-hardlink-counts fs/proc/base.c --- 25/fs/proc/base.c~procfs-fix-hardlink-counts 2005-04-29 18:54:52.140217480 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/fs/proc/base.c 2005-04-29 18:54:52.145216720 -0700 @@ -1861,8 +1861,12 @@ struct dentry *proc_pid_lookup(struct in inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR|S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO; inode->i_op = &proc_tgid_base_inode_operations; inode->i_fop = &proc_tgid_base_operations; - inode->i_nlink = 3; inode->i_flags|=S_IMMUTABLE; +#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY + inode->i_nlink = 5; +#else + inode->i_nlink = 4; +#endif dentry->d_op = &pid_base_dentry_operations; @@ -1916,8 +1920,12 @@ static struct dentry *proc_task_lookup(s inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR|S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO; inode->i_op = &proc_tid_base_inode_operations; inode->i_fop = &proc_tid_base_operations; - inode->i_nlink = 3; inode->i_flags|=S_IMMUTABLE; +#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY + inode->i_nlink = 4; +#else + inode->i_nlink = 3; +#endif dentry->d_op = &pid_base_dentry_operations; _