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>
This commit is contained in:
Alexey Dobriyan
2009-03-25 22:48:06 +03:00
parent 3dec7f59c3
commit 99b7623380
55 changed files with 26 additions and 232 deletions

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@@ -58,11 +58,8 @@ static void proc_delete_inode(struct inode *inode)
/* Let go of any associated proc directory entry */
de = PROC_I(inode)->pde;
if (de) {
if (de->owner)
module_put(de->owner);
if (de)
de_put(de);
}
if (PROC_I(inode)->sysctl)
sysctl_head_put(PROC_I(inode)->sysctl);
clear_inode(inode);
@@ -449,12 +446,9 @@ struct inode *proc_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, unsigned int ino,
{
struct inode * inode;
if (!try_module_get(de->owner))
goto out_mod;
inode = iget_locked(sb, ino);
if (!inode)
goto out_ino;
return NULL;
if (inode->i_state & I_NEW) {
inode->i_mtime = inode->i_atime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
PROC_I(inode)->fd = 0;
@@ -485,16 +479,9 @@ struct inode *proc_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, unsigned int ino,
}
}
unlock_new_inode(inode);
} else {
module_put(de->owner);
} else
de_put(de);
}
return inode;
out_ino:
module_put(de->owner);
out_mod:
return NULL;
}
int proc_fill_super(struct super_block *s)