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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 /fs/proc/proc_tty.c
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 'fs/proc/proc_tty.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/proc_tty.c1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_tty.c b/fs/proc/proc_tty.c
index d153946d6d1..4a9e0f65ae6 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_tty.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_tty.c
@@ -152,7 +152,6 @@ void proc_tty_register_driver(struct tty_driver *driver)
if (!ent)
return;
ent->read_proc = driver->ops->read_proc;
- ent->owner = driver->owner;
ent->data = driver;
driver->proc_entry = ent;