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 --- fs/reiserfs/procfs.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/reiserfs') diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/procfs.c b/fs/reiserfs/procfs.c index d5066400638..9229e5514a4 100644 --- a/fs/reiserfs/procfs.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/procfs.c @@ -492,7 +492,6 @@ int reiserfs_proc_info_init(struct super_block *sb) spin_lock_init(&__PINFO(sb).lock); REISERFS_SB(sb)->procdir = proc_mkdir(b, proc_info_root); if (REISERFS_SB(sb)->procdir) { - REISERFS_SB(sb)->procdir->owner = THIS_MODULE; REISERFS_SB(sb)->procdir->data = sb; add_file(sb, "version", show_version); add_file(sb, "super", show_super); @@ -556,9 +555,7 @@ int reiserfs_proc_info_global_init(void) { if (proc_info_root == NULL) { proc_info_root = proc_mkdir(proc_info_root_name, NULL); - if (proc_info_root) { - proc_info_root->owner = THIS_MODULE; - } else { + if (!proc_info_root) { reiserfs_warning(NULL, "cannot create /proc/%s", proc_info_root_name); return 1; -- cgit v1.2.3