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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> |
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| acpica | ||
| ac.c | ||
| acpi_memhotplug.c | ||
| battery.c | ||
| blacklist.c | ||
| bus.c | ||
| button.c | ||
| cm_sbs.c | ||
| container.c | ||
| debug.c | ||
| dock.c | ||
| ec.c | ||
| event.c | ||
| fan.c | ||
| glue.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| numa.c | ||
| osl.c | ||
| pci_bind.c | ||
| pci_irq.c | ||
| pci_link.c | ||
| pci_root.c | ||
| pci_slot.c | ||
| power.c | ||
| proc.c | ||
| processor_core.c | ||
| processor_idle.c | ||
| processor_perflib.c | ||
| processor_thermal.c | ||
| processor_throttling.c | ||
| reboot.c | ||
| sbs.c | ||
| sbshc.c | ||
| sbshc.h | ||
| scan.c | ||
| sleep.c | ||
| sleep.h | ||
| system.c | ||
| tables.c | ||
| thermal.c | ||
| utils.c | ||
| video_detect.c | ||
| video.c | ||
| wakeup.c | ||