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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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| dev.c | ||
| drop_monitor.c | ||
| dst.c | ||
| ethtool.c | ||
| fib_rules.c | ||
| filter.c | ||
| flow.c | ||
| gen_estimator.c | ||
| gen_stats.c | ||
| iovec.c | ||
| kmap_skb.h | ||
| link_watch.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| neighbour.c | ||
| net_namespace.c | ||
| net-sysfs.c | ||
| net-sysfs.h | ||
| net-traces.c | ||
| netevent.c | ||
| netpoll.c | ||
| pktgen.c | ||
| request_sock.c | ||
| rtnetlink.c | ||
| scm.c | ||
| skb_dma_map.c | ||
| skbuff.c | ||
| sock.c | ||
| stream.c | ||
| sysctl_net_core.c | ||
| user_dma.c | ||
| utils.c | ||