From 99b76233803beab302123d243eea9e41149804f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:48:06 +0300 Subject: 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 --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c') diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c index 3000135f2ead..e58ea4cd55ce 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -2899,7 +2899,7 @@ static int try_smi_init(struct smi_info *new_smi) rv = ipmi_smi_add_proc_entry(new_smi->intf, "type", type_file_read_proc, - new_smi, THIS_MODULE); + new_smi); if (rv) { printk(KERN_ERR "ipmi_si: Unable to create proc entry: %d\n", @@ -2909,7 +2909,7 @@ static int try_smi_init(struct smi_info *new_smi) rv = ipmi_smi_add_proc_entry(new_smi->intf, "si_stats", stat_file_read_proc, - new_smi, THIS_MODULE); + new_smi); if (rv) { printk(KERN_ERR "ipmi_si: Unable to create proc entry: %d\n", @@ -2919,7 +2919,7 @@ static int try_smi_init(struct smi_info *new_smi) rv = ipmi_smi_add_proc_entry(new_smi->intf, "params", param_read_proc, - new_smi, THIS_MODULE); + new_smi); if (rv) { printk(KERN_ERR "ipmi_si: Unable to create proc entry: %d\n", -- cgit