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>
Этот коммит содержится в:
Alexey Dobriyan
2009-03-25 22:48:06 +03:00
родитель 3dec7f59c3
Коммит 99b7623380
55 изменённых файлов: 26 добавлений и 232 удалений

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@@ -1002,8 +1002,6 @@ create_palinfo_proc_entries(unsigned int cpu)
*pdir = create_proc_read_entry(
palinfo_entries[j].name, 0, cpu_dir,
palinfo_read_entry, (void *)f.value);
if (*pdir)
(*pdir)->owner = THIS_MODULE;
pdir++;
}
}

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@@ -225,7 +225,6 @@ static struct proc_dir_entry *sgi_prominfo_entry;
int __init prominfo_init(void)
{
struct proc_dir_entry **entp;
struct proc_dir_entry *p;
cnodeid_t cnodeid;
unsigned long nasid;
int size;
@@ -246,14 +245,10 @@ int __init prominfo_init(void)
sprintf(name, "node%d", cnodeid);
*entp = proc_mkdir(name, sgi_prominfo_entry);
nasid = cnodeid_to_nasid(cnodeid);
p = create_proc_read_entry("fit", 0, *entp, read_fit_entry,
create_proc_read_entry("fit", 0, *entp, read_fit_entry,
(void *)nasid);
if (p)
p->owner = THIS_MODULE;
p = create_proc_read_entry("version", 0, *entp,
create_proc_read_entry("version", 0, *entp,
read_version_entry, (void *)nasid);
if (p)
p->owner = THIS_MODULE;
entp++;
}