linux-kernel - [PATCH] seq_file: use proc

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Date:	Sat, 5 Dec 2009 03:42:04 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	corbet@....net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] seq_file: use proc_create() in documentation

Using create_proc_entry() + ->proc_fops assignment is racy because
->proc_fops will be NULL for some time, use proc_create() to avoid race.
---

 Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt |    4 +---
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
index 0d15ebc..a1e2e0d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
@@ -248,9 +248,7 @@ code, that is done in the initialization code in the usual way:
 	{
 	        struct proc_dir_entry *entry;
 
-	        entry = create_proc_entry("sequence", 0, NULL);
-	        if (entry)
-	                entry->proc_fops = &ct_file_ops;
+	        proc_create("sequence", 0, NULL, &ct_file_ops);
 	        return 0;
 	}
 
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