linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] Fix rmmod/read/write races in /proc entries

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Date:	Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:34:26 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...nvz.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, duncan.sands@...h.u-psud.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Fix rmmod/read/write races in /proc entries

> Does it pass everyone's bullshit detectors?
 
Nice, but incomplete.  What we need to add is
	* procfs-specific file_operations shared by all regular files
on procfs.  Stuff in there would call methods from pde->proc_fops,
after having done the same kind of exclusion you are currently doing
in proc_file_read(), et.al.
	* always set ->f_op of regular files on procfs to that sucker.
Don't reset it to NULL during removal.
	* now that exclusion is done in wrappers, no need to do it in
proc_file_read().

That'll solve the rest of issues.  Eventually we might want to divorce
->proc_fops from file_operations (and trim it down), but that's a separate
story.
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