tmp_suning_uos_patched/net/sctp
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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associola.c
auth.c
bind_addr.c
chunk.c
command.c
debug.c
endpointola.c
input.c
inqueue.c
ipv6.c
Kconfig
Makefile
objcnt.c
output.c
outqueue.c
primitive.c
proc.c
protocol.c
sm_make_chunk.c
sm_sideeffect.c
sm_statefuns.c
sm_statetable.c
socket.c
ssnmap.c
sysctl.c
transport.c
tsnmap.c
ulpevent.c
ulpqueue.c