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proc: do translation + unlink atomically at remove_proc_entry() 

remove_proc_entry() does

	lock
	lookup parent
	unlock
	lock
	unlink proc entry from lists
	unlock

which can be made bit more correct by doing parent translation + unlink
without dropping lock.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan 2010-03-05 13:43:59 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 5748150eab
commit e17a5765f2
1 changed files with 19 additions and 12 deletions
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fs/proc/generic.c
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@ -291,19 +291,17 @@ static const struct inode_operations proc_file_inode_operations = {
* returns the struct proc_dir_entry for "/proc/tty/driver", and
* returns "serial" in residual.
*/
static int xlate_proc_name(const char *name,
struct proc_dir_entry **ret, const char **residual)
static int __xlate_proc_name(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry **ret,
const char **residual)
{
const char *cp = name, *next;
struct proc_dir_entry *de;
int len;
int rtn = 0;
de = *ret;
if (!de)
de = &proc_root;
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
while (1) {
next = strchr(cp, '/');
if (!next)
@ -314,17 +312,24 @@ static int xlate_proc_name(const char *name,
if (proc_match(len, cp, de))
break;
}
if (!de) {
rtn = -ENOENT;
goto out;
}
if (!de)
return -ENOENT;
cp += len + 1;
}
*residual = cp;
*ret = de;
out:
return 0;
}
static int xlate_proc_name(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry **ret,
const char **residual)
{
int rv;
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
rv = __xlate_proc_name(name, ret, residual);
spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
return rtn;
return rv;
}
static DEFINE_IDA(proc_inum_ida);
@ -797,11 +802,13 @@ void remove_proc_entry(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *parent)
const char *fn = name;
int len;
if (xlate_proc_name(name, &parent, &fn) != 0)
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
if (__xlate_proc_name(name, &parent, &fn) != 0) {
spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
return;
}
len = strlen(fn);
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
for (p = &parent->subdir; *p; p=&(*p)->next ) {
if (proc_match(len, fn, *p)) {
de = *p;