linux/net/atm
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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addr.c
addr.h
atm_misc.c
atm_sysfs.c
br2684.c
clip.c atm: convert clip driver to net_device_ops 2009-03-21 19:19:12 -07:00
common.c
common.h
ioctl.c
Kconfig
lec.c atm: lec use dev_change_mtu 2009-03-21 13:37:28 -07:00
lec.h lec: convert to internal network_device_stats 2009-01-21 14:02:00 -08:00
lec_arpc.h
Makefile
mpc.c atm: convert mpc device to using netdev_ops 2009-03-21 19:19:12 -07:00
mpc.h atm: convert mpc device to using netdev_ops 2009-03-21 19:19:12 -07:00
mpoa_caches.c
mpoa_caches.h
mpoa_proc.c proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
pppoatm.c
proc.c proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
protocols.h
pvc.c
raw.c
resources.c
resources.h
signaling.c
signaling.h
svc.c