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author | Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> | 2009-03-25 19:48:06 (GMT) |
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committer | Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> | 2009-03-30 21:14:44 (GMT) |
commit | 99b76233803beab302123d243eea9e41149804f3 (patch) | |
tree | 398178210fe66845ccd6fa4258ba762a87e023ad /drivers/net/irda | |
parent | 3dec7f59c370c7b58184d63293c3dc984d475840 (diff) | |
download | linux-99b76233803beab302123d243eea9e41149804f3.tar.xz |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/irda')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.c b/drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.c index 1243bc8..ac0e4b6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.c +++ b/drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.c @@ -1871,13 +1871,6 @@ static int __init vlsi_mod_init(void) * without procfs - it's not required for the driver to work. */ vlsi_proc_root = proc_mkdir(PROC_DIR, NULL); - if (vlsi_proc_root) { - /* protect registered procdir against module removal. - * Because we are in the module init path there's no race - * window after create_proc_entry (and no barrier needed). - */ - vlsi_proc_root->owner = THIS_MODULE; - } ret = pci_register_driver(&vlsi_irda_driver); |