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![]() 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> |
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array.c | ||
base.c | ||
cmdline.c | ||
cpuinfo.c | ||
devices.c | ||
generic.c | ||
inode.c | ||
internal.h | ||
interrupts.c | ||
Kconfig | ||
kcore.c | ||
kmsg.c | ||
loadavg.c | ||
Makefile | ||
meminfo.c | ||
mmu.c | ||
nommu.c | ||
page.c | ||
proc_devtree.c | ||
proc_net.c | ||
proc_sysctl.c | ||
proc_tty.c | ||
root.c | ||
stat.c | ||
task_mmu.c | ||
task_nommu.c | ||
uptime.c | ||
version.c | ||
vmcore.c |