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 --- drivers/acpi/ac.c | 1 - drivers/acpi/battery.c | 1 - drivers/acpi/button.c | 3 --- drivers/acpi/fan.c | 2 -- drivers/acpi/processor_core.c | 2 -- drivers/acpi/sbs.c | 1 - drivers/acpi/thermal.c | 2 -- drivers/acpi/video.c | 5 ----- 8 files changed, 17 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/acpi') diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ac.c b/drivers/acpi/ac.c index 9b917dac7732..88e42abf5d88 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/ac.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/ac.c @@ -191,7 +191,6 @@ static int acpi_ac_add_fs(struct acpi_device *device) acpi_ac_dir); if (!acpi_device_dir(device)) return -ENODEV; - acpi_device_dir(device)->owner = THIS_MODULE; } /* 'state' [R] */ diff --git a/drivers/acpi/battery.c b/drivers/acpi/battery.c index 69cbc57c2d1c..3bcb5bfc45d3 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/battery.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/battery.c @@ -760,7 +760,6 @@ static int acpi_battery_add_fs(struct acpi_device *device) acpi_battery_dir); if (!acpi_device_dir(device)) return -ENODEV; - acpi_device_dir(device)->owner = THIS_MODULE; } for (i = 0; i < ACPI_BATTERY_NUMFILES; ++i) { diff --git a/drivers/acpi/button.c b/drivers/acpi/button.c index 171fd914f435..c2f06069dcd4 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/button.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/button.c @@ -200,12 +200,10 @@ static int acpi_button_add_fs(struct acpi_device *device) if (!entry) return -ENODEV; - entry->owner = THIS_MODULE; acpi_device_dir(device) = proc_mkdir(acpi_device_bid(device), entry); if (!acpi_device_dir(device)) return -ENODEV; - acpi_device_dir(device)->owner = THIS_MODULE; /* 'info' [R] */ entry = proc_create_data(ACPI_BUTTON_FILE_INFO, @@ -522,7 +520,6 @@ static int __init acpi_button_init(void) acpi_button_dir = proc_mkdir(ACPI_BUTTON_CLASS, acpi_root_dir); if (!acpi_button_dir) return -ENODEV; - acpi_button_dir->owner = THIS_MODULE; result = acpi_bus_register_driver(&acpi_button_driver); if (result < 0) { remove_proc_entry(ACPI_BUTTON_CLASS, acpi_root_dir); diff --git a/drivers/acpi/fan.c b/drivers/acpi/fan.c index eaaee1660bdf..8a02944bf92d 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/fan.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/fan.c @@ -193,7 +193,6 @@ static int acpi_fan_add_fs(struct acpi_device *device) acpi_fan_dir); if (!acpi_device_dir(device)) return -ENODEV; - acpi_device_dir(device)->owner = THIS_MODULE; } /* 'status' [R/W] */ @@ -347,7 +346,6 @@ static int __init acpi_fan_init(void) acpi_fan_dir = proc_mkdir(ACPI_FAN_CLASS, acpi_root_dir); if (!acpi_fan_dir) return -ENODEV; - acpi_fan_dir->owner = THIS_MODULE; #endif result = acpi_bus_register_driver(&acpi_fan_driver); diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c index 0cc2fd31e376..fa2f7422d23d 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c @@ -359,7 +359,6 @@ static int acpi_processor_add_fs(struct acpi_device *device) if (!acpi_device_dir(device)) return -ENODEV; } - acpi_device_dir(device)->owner = THIS_MODULE; /* 'info' [R] */ entry = proc_create_data(ACPI_PROCESSOR_FILE_INFO, @@ -1137,7 +1136,6 @@ static int __init acpi_processor_init(void) acpi_processor_dir = proc_mkdir(ACPI_PROCESSOR_CLASS, acpi_root_dir); if (!acpi_processor_dir) return -ENOMEM; - acpi_processor_dir->owner = THIS_MODULE; /* * Check whether the system is DMI table. If yes, OSPM diff --git a/drivers/acpi/sbs.c b/drivers/acpi/sbs.c index 6050ce481873..59afd52ccc12 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/sbs.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/sbs.c @@ -488,7 +488,6 @@ acpi_sbs_add_fs(struct proc_dir_entry **dir, if (!*dir) { return -ENODEV; } - (*dir)->owner = THIS_MODULE; } /* 'info' [R] */ diff --git a/drivers/acpi/thermal.c b/drivers/acpi/thermal.c index 99e6f1f8ea45..c11f9aeca706 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/thermal.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/thermal.c @@ -1506,7 +1506,6 @@ static int acpi_thermal_add_fs(struct acpi_device *device) acpi_thermal_dir); if (!acpi_device_dir(device)) return -ENODEV; - acpi_device_dir(device)->owner = THIS_MODULE; } /* 'state' [R] */ @@ -1875,7 +1874,6 @@ static int __init acpi_thermal_init(void) acpi_thermal_dir = proc_mkdir(ACPI_THERMAL_CLASS, acpi_root_dir); if (!acpi_thermal_dir) return -ENODEV; - acpi_thermal_dir->owner = THIS_MODULE; result = acpi_bus_register_driver(&acpi_thermal_driver); if (result < 0) { diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c index bb5ed059114a..67cc36dc9b82 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/video.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c @@ -1125,8 +1125,6 @@ static int acpi_video_device_add_fs(struct acpi_device *device) if (!device_dir) return -ENOMEM; - device_dir->owner = THIS_MODULE; - /* 'info' [R] */ entry = proc_create_data("info", S_IRUGO, device_dir, &acpi_video_device_info_fops, acpi_driver_data(device)); @@ -1403,8 +1401,6 @@ static int acpi_video_bus_add_fs(struct acpi_device *device) if (!device_dir) return -ENOMEM; - device_dir->owner = THIS_MODULE; - /* 'info' [R] */ entry = proc_create_data("info", S_IRUGO, device_dir, &acpi_video_bus_info_fops, @@ -2131,7 +2127,6 @@ static int __init acpi_video_init(void) acpi_video_dir = proc_mkdir(ACPI_VIDEO_CLASS, acpi_root_dir); if (!acpi_video_dir) return -ENODEV; - acpi_video_dir->owner = THIS_MODULE; result = acpi_bus_register_driver(&acpi_video_bus); if (result < 0) { -- cgit v1.2.3