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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Fix rmmod/read/write races in /proc entries
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:34:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070211203426.GB4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070211202330.GA24509@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>

> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-11 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-08 13:20 [PATCH v3] " Alexey Dobriyan
2007-02-09  9:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-11 20:23   ` [PATCH v4] " Alexey Dobriyan
2007-02-11 20:34     ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-02-13  6:35     ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-13 16:16       ` Alexey Dobriyan

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