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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oss	Merge branch 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6	2009-03-26 16:14:02 -07:00
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control_compat.c
control.c
device.c
hrtimer.c
hwdep_compat.c
hwdep.c
info_oss.c
info.c	proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner	2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
init.c
isadma.c
jack.c
Kconfig
Makefile
memalloc.c
memory.c
misc.c
pcm_compat.c
pcm_lib.c
pcm_memory.c
pcm_misc.c
pcm_native.c	Merge branch 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6	2009-03-26 16:14:02 -07:00
pcm_timer.c
pcm.c	Merge branch 'topic/misc' into for-linus	2009-03-24 00:35:50 +01:00
rawmidi_compat.c
rawmidi.c
rtctimer.c
sgbuf.c
sound_oss.c
sound.c
timer_compat.c
timer.c
vmaster.c