From 99b76233803beab302123d243eea9e41149804f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:48:06 +0300 Subject: 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 --- arch/alpha/kernel/srm_env.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/alpha') diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/srm_env.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/srm_env.c index 78ad7cd1bbd6..d12af472e1c0 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/srm_env.c +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/srm_env.c @@ -218,7 +218,6 @@ srm_env_init(void) BASE_DIR); goto cleanup; } - base_dir->owner = THIS_MODULE; /* * Create per-name subdirectory @@ -229,7 +228,6 @@ srm_env_init(void) BASE_DIR, NAMED_DIR); goto cleanup; } - named_dir->owner = THIS_MODULE; /* * Create per-number subdirectory @@ -241,7 +239,6 @@ srm_env_init(void) goto cleanup; } - numbered_dir->owner = THIS_MODULE; /* * Create all named nodes @@ -254,7 +251,6 @@ srm_env_init(void) goto cleanup; entry->proc_entry->data = (void *) entry; - entry->proc_entry->owner = THIS_MODULE; entry->proc_entry->read_proc = srm_env_read; entry->proc_entry->write_proc = srm_env_write; @@ -275,7 +271,6 @@ srm_env_init(void) entry->id = var_num; entry->proc_entry->data = (void *) entry; - entry->proc_entry->owner = THIS_MODULE; entry->proc_entry->read_proc = srm_env_read; entry->proc_entry->write_proc = srm_env_write; } -- cgit v1.2.3