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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2009-03-25 22:48:06 +0300
committerAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2009-03-31 01:14:44 +0400
commit99b76233803beab302123d243eea9e41149804f3 (patch)
tree398178210fe66845ccd6fa4258ba762a87e023ad /drivers/s390
parent3dec7f59c370c7b58184d63293c3dc984d475840 (diff)
proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner
Setting ->owner as done currently (pde->owner = THIS_MODULE) is racy as correctly noted at bug #12454. Someone can lookup entry with NULL ->owner, thus not pinning enything, and release it later resulting in module refcount underflow. We can keep ->owner and supply it at registration time like ->proc_fops and ->data. But this leaves ->owner as easy-manipulative field (just one C assignment) and somebody will forget to unpin previous/pin current module when switching ->owner. ->proc_fops is declared as "const" which should give some thoughts. ->read_proc/->write_proc were just fixed to not require ->owner for protection. rmmod'ed directories will be empty and return "." and ".." -- no harm. And directories with tricky enough readdir and lookup shouldn't be modular. We definitely don't want such modular code. Removing ->owner will also make PDE smaller. So, let's nuke it. Kudos to Jeff Layton for reminding about this, let's say, oversight. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12454 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/s390')
-rw-r--r--drivers/s390/block/dasd_proc.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_proc.c b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_proc.c
index 2080ba6a69b..654daa3cdfd 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_proc.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_proc.c
@@ -320,7 +320,6 @@ dasd_proc_init(void)
dasd_proc_root_entry = proc_mkdir("dasd", NULL);
if (!dasd_proc_root_entry)
goto out_nodasd;
- dasd_proc_root_entry->owner = THIS_MODULE;
dasd_devices_entry = proc_create("devices",
S_IFREG | S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
dasd_proc_root_entry,
@@ -334,7 +333,6 @@ dasd_proc_init(void)
goto out_nostatistics;
dasd_statistics_entry->read_proc = dasd_statistics_read;
dasd_statistics_entry->write_proc = dasd_statistics_write;
- dasd_statistics_entry->owner = THIS_MODULE;
return 0;
out_nostatistics: