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Fix race between proc_get_inode() and remove_proc_entry()

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proc_lookup				remove_proc_entry
===========				=================

lock_kernel();
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
[find PDE with refcount 0]
spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
					spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
					[find PDE with refcount 0]
					[check refcount and free PDE]
					spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
proc_get_inode:
	de_get(de); /* boom */

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan
2007-05-08 00:25:45 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 79c0b2df79
commit 7695650a92
3 changed files with 9 additions and 8 deletions
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include/linux/proc_fs.h
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@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ int task_statm(struct mm_struct *, int *, int *, int *, int *);
char *task_mem(struct mm_struct *, char *);
void clear_refs_smap(struct mm_struct *mm);
struct proc_dir_entry *de_get(struct proc_dir_entry *de);
void de_put(struct proc_dir_entry *de);
extern struct proc_dir_entry *create_proc_entry(const char *name, mode_t mode,
struct proc_dir_entry *parent);
extern void remove_proc_entry(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *parent);