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authorZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>2008-02-08 15:18:29 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-08 20:22:23 +0300
commit94413d8807a3c511a3675be4ce27a4d16d6408ee (patch)
treed20800024bdfe15d4f6ae1e7cc63a537127afab4 /fs/proc/generic.c
parentfd2cbe48883a01f710c2a639877e3b3e4eba6e59 (diff)
downloadlinux-94413d8807a3c511a3675be4ce27a4d16d6408ee.tar.xz
proc: detect duplicate names on registration
Print a warning if PDE is registered with a name which already exists in target directory. Bug report and a simple fix can be found here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8798 [\n fixlet and no undescriptive variable usage --adobriyan] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make printk comprehensible] Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/generic.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/generic.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index e37ea3e53de8..b9dd3628d43a 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ static const struct inode_operations proc_dir_inode_operations = {
static int proc_register(struct proc_dir_entry * dir, struct proc_dir_entry * dp)
{
unsigned int i;
+ struct proc_dir_entry *tmp;
i = get_inode_number();
if (i == 0)
@@ -544,6 +545,15 @@ static int proc_register(struct proc_dir_entry * dir, struct proc_dir_entry * dp
}
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
+
+ for (tmp = dir->subdir; tmp; tmp = tmp->next)
+ if (strcmp(tmp->name, dp->name) == 0) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "proc_dir_entry '%s' already "
+ "registered\n", dp->name);
+ dump_stack();
+ break;
+ }
+
dp->next = dir->subdir;
dp->parent = dir;
dir->subdir = dp;