proc 1/2: do PDE usecounting even for ->read_proc, ->write_proc
authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:04:33 +0000 (17:04 +0300)
committerAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:14:27 +0000 (01:14 +0400)
struct proc_dir_entry::owner is going to be removed. Now it's only necessary
to protect PDEs which are using ->read_proc, ->write_proc hooks.

However, ->owner assignments are racy and make it very easy for someone to switch
->owner on live PDE (as some subsystems do) without fixing refcounts and so on.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12454

So, ->owner is on death row.

Proxy file operations exist already (proc_file_operations), just bump usecount
when necessary.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

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