From 99b76233803beab302123d243eea9e41149804f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:48:06 +0300 Subject: 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 --- drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.c b/drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.c index 1243bc8e0035..ac0e4b6b6b66 100644 --- a/drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.c +++ b/drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.c @@ -1871,13 +1871,6 @@ static int __init vlsi_mod_init(void) * without procfs - it's not required for the driver to work. */ vlsi_proc_root = proc_mkdir(PROC_DIR, NULL); - if (vlsi_proc_root) { - /* protect registered procdir against module removal. - * Because we are in the module init path there's no race - * window after create_proc_entry (and no barrier needed). - */ - vlsi_proc_root->owner = THIS_MODULE; - } ret = pci_register_driver(&vlsi_irda_driver); -- cgit v1.2.3