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 --- net/atm/proc.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/atm/proc.c') diff --git a/net/atm/proc.c b/net/atm/proc.c index 49487b313f22..e7b3b273907d 100644 --- a/net/atm/proc.c +++ b/net/atm/proc.c @@ -476,7 +476,6 @@ int __init atm_proc_init(void) atm_proc_root, e->proc_fops); if (!dirent) goto err_out_remove; - dirent->owner = THIS_MODULE; e->dirent = dirent; } ret = 0; -- cgit v1.2.3