linux-stable-rt/fs/nfs
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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Kconfig
Makefile
callback.c
callback.h
callback_proc.c
callback_xdr.c
client.c proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
delegation.c
delegation.h
dir.c constify dentry_operations: NFS 2009-03-27 14:43:59 -04:00
direct.c
file.c
getroot.c
idmap.c
inode.c
internal.h
iostat.h
mount_clnt.c
namespace.c
nfs2xdr.c
nfs3acl.c NFSv3: Fix posix ACL code 2009-03-10 20:33:18 -04:00
nfs3proc.c
nfs3xdr.c NFSv3: Fix posix ACL code 2009-03-10 20:33:18 -04:00
nfs4_fs.h constify dentry_operations: NFS 2009-03-27 14:43:59 -04:00
nfs4namespace.c
nfs4proc.c
nfs4renewd.c
nfs4state.c
nfs4xdr.c
nfsroot.c
pagelist.c
proc.c
read.c
super.c
symlink.c
sysctl.c
unlink.c
write.c