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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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| afs.h | ||
| afs_cm.h | ||
| afs_fs.h | ||
| afs_vl.h | ||
| cache.c | ||
| cache.h | ||
| callback.c | ||
| cell.c | ||
| cmservice.c | ||
| dir.c | ||
| file.c | ||
| flock.c | ||
| fsclient.c | ||
| inode.c | ||
| internal.h | ||
| main.c | ||
| misc.c | ||
| mntpt.c | ||
| netdevices.c | ||
| proc.c | ||
| rxrpc.c | ||
| security.c | ||
| server.c | ||
| super.c | ||
| vlclient.c | ||
| vlocation.c | ||
| vnode.c | ||
| volume.c | ||
| write.c | ||