linux-stable/fs/proc
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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array.c CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds 2008-11-14 10:39:19 +11:00
base.c fix setuid sometimes wouldn't 2009-03-28 17:30:00 -07:00
cmdline.c proc: switch /proc/cmdline to seq_file 2008-10-23 14:29:04 +04:00
cpuinfo.c proc: move /proc/cpuinfo code to fs/proc/cpuinfo.c 2008-10-23 15:05:11 +04:00
devices.c proc: move /proc/devices code to fs/proc/devices.c 2008-10-23 15:02:18 +04:00
generic.c proc 1/2: do PDE usecounting even for ->read_proc, ->write_proc 2009-03-31 01:14:27 +04:00
inode.c proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
internal.h proc 1/2: do PDE usecounting even for ->read_proc, ->write_proc 2009-03-31 01:14:27 +04:00
interrupts.c proc: move /proc/interrupts boilerplate code to fs/proc/interrupts.c 2008-10-23 15:15:46 +04:00
Kconfig proc: move PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to fs/proc/Kconfig 2008-10-10 04:18:57 +04:00
kcore.c proc: move all /proc/kcore stuff to fs/proc/kcore.c 2008-10-23 18:32:38 +04:00
kmsg.c proc: move /proc/kmsg creation to fs/proc/kmsg.c 2008-10-23 14:35:08 +04:00
loadavg.c proc: switch /proc/loadavg to seq_file 2008-10-23 13:45:28 +04:00
Makefile proc: remove fs/proc/proc_misc.c 2008-10-23 18:54:05 +04:00
meminfo.c NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux 2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
mmu.c
nommu.c NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux 2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
page.c proc: fix kflags to uflags copying in /proc/kpageflags 2009-03-11 07:43:33 -07:00
proc_devtree.c powerpc: Remove `have_of' global variable 2008-12-16 15:52:57 +11:00
proc_net.c proc: stop using BKL 2009-01-05 12:27:44 +03:00
proc_sysctl.c constify dentry_operations: procfs 2009-03-27 14:44:01 -04:00
proc_tty.c proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
root.c vfs: simple_set_mnt() should return void 2009-03-27 14:44:03 -04:00
stat.c proc: remove ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ from stat.c 2008-12-26 09:48:18 +01:00
task_mmu.c proc: fix sparse warnings in pagemap_read() 2009-03-31 01:14:22 +04:00
task_nommu.c NOMMU: Improve procfs output using per-MM VMAs 2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
uptime.c proc: revert /proc/uptime to ->read_proc hook 2008-10-27 22:56:56 +03:00
version.c proc: switch /proc/version to seq_file 2008-10-23 14:19:58 +04:00
vmcore.c vmcore: remove saved_max_pfn check 2009-01-08 08:31:14 -08:00