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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
Randy Dunlap
758222f842 docbook: update procfs credits
Update Erik Mouw's email address & affiliation in DocBook.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Erik Mouw <mouw@nl.linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:46 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
5d39d9440d docsrc: fix procfs example
Add MODULE_LICENSE() to DocBook/procfs_example.c since modpost complained
about a missing license there.

Remove tty procfs removal since the creation was deleted long ago
(http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git;a=commitdiff;h=5ad9cb65e9b15e5b83e2dd1c10a4bcaccc4ec644).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-12 16:07:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00