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/video/via/viafbdev.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/video') diff --git a/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c b/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c index 37b433a08ce..e327b84820d 100644 --- a/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c +++ b/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c @@ -2059,25 +2059,21 @@ static void viafb_init_proc(struct proc_dir_entry **viafb_entry) if (viafb_entry) { entry = create_proc_entry("dvp0", 0, *viafb_entry); if (entry) { - entry->owner = THIS_MODULE; entry->read_proc = viafb_dvp0_proc_read; entry->write_proc = viafb_dvp0_proc_write; } entry = create_proc_entry("dvp1", 0, *viafb_entry); if (entry) { - entry->owner = THIS_MODULE; entry->read_proc = viafb_dvp1_proc_read; entry->write_proc = viafb_dvp1_proc_write; } entry = create_proc_entry("dfph", 0, *viafb_entry); if (entry) { - entry->owner = THIS_MODULE; entry->read_proc = viafb_dfph_proc_read; entry->write_proc = viafb_dfph_proc_write; } entry = create_proc_entry("dfpl", 0, *viafb_entry); if (entry) { - entry->owner = THIS_MODULE; entry->read_proc = viafb_dfpl_proc_read; entry->write_proc = viafb_dfpl_proc_write; } @@ -2086,7 +2082,6 @@ static void viafb_init_proc(struct proc_dir_entry **viafb_entry) viaparinfo->chip_info->lvds_chip_info2.lvds_chip_name) { entry = create_proc_entry("vt1636", 0, *viafb_entry); if (entry) { - entry->owner = THIS_MODULE; entry->read_proc = viafb_vt1636_proc_read; entry->write_proc = viafb_vt1636_proc_write; } -- cgit v1.2.3