linux-stable/net/llc
Alexey Dobriyan 99b7623380 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>
2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
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af_llc.c llc: fix non-const printk warning 2009-02-22 19:54:46 -08:00
Kconfig
llc_c_ac.c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-04-02 22:35:23 -07:00
llc_c_ev.c net: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-03-05 20:47:47 -08:00
llc_c_st.c
llc_conn.c llc: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb() 2009-02-26 23:07:38 -08:00
llc_core.c net: convert usage of packet_type to read_mostly 2009-03-10 05:22:43 -07:00
llc_if.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
llc_input.c netns: Use net_eq() to compare net-namespaces for optimization. 2008-07-19 22:34:43 -07:00
llc_output.c [LLC]: Use skb_reset_mac_header in llc_mac_hdr_init 2007-04-25 22:24:35 -07:00
llc_pdu.c [LLC]: skb allocation size for responses 2008-03-31 21:02:47 -07:00
llc_proc.c proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
llc_s_ac.c [LLC]: skb allocation size for responses 2008-03-31 21:02:47 -07:00
llc_s_ev.c
llc_s_st.c [NET] LLC: Fix whitespace errors. 2007-02-10 23:19:53 -08:00
llc_sap.c llc: Fix double accounting of received packets 2008-05-30 02:57:29 -07:00
llc_station.c [LLC]: skb allocation size for responses 2008-03-31 21:02:47 -07:00
Makefile
sysctl_net_llc.c net: '&' redux 2008-11-03 18:21:05 -08:00