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>
Use proc_create() to make sure that ->proc_fops be setup before gluing
PDE to main tree.
Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch makes /proc/net per network namespace. It modifies the global
variables proc_net and proc_net_stat to be per network namespace.
The proc_net file helpers are modified to take a network namespace argument,
and all of their callers are fixed to pass &init_net for that argument.
This ensures that all of the /proc/net files are only visible and
usable in the initial network namespace until the code behind them
has been updated to be handle multiple network namespaces.
Making /proc/net per namespace is necessary as at least some files
in /proc/net depend upon the set of network devices which is per
network namespace, and even more files in /proc/net have contents
that are relevant to a single network namespace.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When having built-in IrDA, we hit the following error:
`irda_sysctl_unregister' referenced in section `.init.text' of
net/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of
net/built-in.o
`irda_proc_unregister' referenced in section `.init.text' of
net/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of
net/built-in.o
`irsock_cleanup' referenced in section `.init.text' of net/built-in.o:
defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of net/built-in.o
`irttp_cleanup' referenced in section `.init.text' of net/built-in.o:
defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of net/built-in.o
`iriap_cleanup' referenced in section `.init.text' of net/built-in.o:
defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of net/built-in.o
`irda_device_cleanup' referenced in section `.init.text' of
net/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of
net/built-in.o
`irlap_cleanup' referenced in section `.init.text' of net/built-in.o:
defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of net/built-in.o
`irlmp_cleanup' referenced in section `.init.text' of net/built-in.o:
defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of net/built-in.o
make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
make: *** [_all] Error 2
This is due to the irda_init fix recently added, where we call __exit
routines from an __init one. It is a build failure that I didn't catch
because it doesn't show up when building IrDA as a module. My apologies
for that.
The following patch fixes that failure and is against your net-2.6
tree. I hope it can make it to the merge window, and stable@kernel.org
is CCed on this mail.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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!
