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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2008-04-29 01:01:40 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-29 08:06:17 -0700
commit7cee4e00e0f8aa7290266382ea903a5a1b92c9a1 (patch)
tree3d4ca2241e122f3358433b26538d952eda0226c5
parentf649d6d32605c7573884613289fb3b9fbd4f99a1 (diff)
proc: less special case in xlate code
If valid "parent" is passed to proc_create/remove_proc_entry(), then name of PDE should consist of only one path component, otherwise creation or or removal will fail. However, if NULL is passed as parent then create/remove accept full path as a argument. This is arbitrary restriction -- all infrastructure is in place. So, patch allows the following to succeed: create_proc_entry("foo/bar", 0, pde_baz); remove_proc_entry("baz/foo/bar", &proc_root); Also makes the following to behave identically: create_proc_entry("foo/bar", 0, NULL); create_proc_entry("foo/bar", 0, &proc_root); Discrepancy noticed by Den Lunev (IIRC). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/generic.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index 45d0076bc08e..3c6f5669523a 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -277,8 +277,11 @@ static int xlate_proc_name(const char *name,
int len;
int rtn = 0;
+ de = *ret;
+ if (!de)
+ de = &proc_root;
+
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
- de = &proc_root;
while (1) {
next = strchr(cp, '/');
if (!next)
@@ -582,7 +585,7 @@ static struct proc_dir_entry *__proc_create(struct proc_dir_entry **parent,
/* make sure name is valid */
if (!name || !strlen(name)) goto out;
- if (!(*parent) && xlate_proc_name(name, parent, &fn) != 0)
+ if (xlate_proc_name(name, parent, &fn) != 0)
goto out;
/* At this point there must not be any '/' characters beyond *fn */
@@ -738,7 +741,7 @@ void remove_proc_entry(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *parent)
const char *fn = name;
int len;
- if (!parent && xlate_proc_name(name, &parent, &fn) != 0)
+ if (xlate_proc_name(name, &parent, &fn) != 0)
return;
len = strlen(fn);