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2009-03-31proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::ownerAlexey Dobriyan
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>
2008-10-16docbook: update procfs creditsRandy Dunlap
Update Erik Mouw's email address & affiliation in DocBook. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Erik Mouw <mouw@nl.linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-12docsrc: fix procfs exampleRandy Dunlap
Add MODULE_LICENSE() to DocBook/procfs_example.c since modpost complained about a missing license there. Remove tty procfs removal since the creation was deleted long ago (http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git;a=commitdiff;h=5ad9cb65e9b15e5b83e2dd1c10a4bcaccc4ec644). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: <J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!