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>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (24 commits)
trivial: chack -> check typo fix in main Makefile
trivial: Add a space (and a comma) to a printk in 8250 driver
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in docs for ncr53c8xx/sym53c8xx
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in powerpc Makefile
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in usb.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in qla1280.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in a100u2w.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in megaraid.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in ql4_mbx.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in acpi_memhotplug.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in ipw2100.c
trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in atmel.c
trivial: Fix misspelled firmware in Kconfig
trivial: fix an -> a typos in documentation and comments
trivial: fix then -> than typos in comments and documentation
trivial: update Jesper Juhl CREDITS entry with new email
trivial: fix singal -> signal typo
trivial: Fix incorrect use of "loose" in event.c
trivial: printk: fix indentation of new_text_line declaration
trivial: rtc-stk17ta8: fix sparse warning
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Remove excess kernel-doc function parameter notation from i2o/.
Warning(drivers/message/i2o/iop.c:64): Excess function parameter 'msg' description in 'i2o_msg_get_wait'
Warning(drivers/message/i2o/device.c:62): Excess function parameter 'drv' description in 'i2o_device_claim'
Warning(drivers/message/i2o/device.c:95): Excess function parameter 'drv' description in 'i2o_device_claim_release'
Warning(drivers/message/i2o/driver.c:186): Excess function parameter 'msg' description in 'i2o_driver_dispatch'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As it is, all instances of ->release() for files that have ->fasync()
need to remember to evict file from fasync lists; forgetting that
creates a hole and we actually have a bunch that *does* forget.
So let's keep our lives simple - let __fput() check FASYNC in
file->f_flags and call ->fasync() there if it's been set. And lose that
crap in ->release() instances - leaving it there is still valid, but we
don't have to bother anymore.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fixup i2o kernel-doc warnings:
Warning(linux-next-20081022//drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c:579): No description found for parameter 'bdev'
Warning(linux-next-20081022//drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c:579): No description found for parameter 'mode'
Warning(linux-next-20081022//drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c:608): No description found for parameter 'disk'
Warning(linux-next-20081022//drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c:608): No description found for parameter 'mode'
Warning(linux-next-20081022//drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c:657): No description found for parameter 'bdev'
Warning(linux-next-20081022//drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c:657): No description found for parameter 'mode'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To keep the size of changesets sane we split the switch by drivers;
to keep the damn thing bisectable we do the following:
1) rename the affected methods, add ones with correct
prototypes, make (few) callers handle both. That's this changeset.
2) for each driver convert to new methods. *ALL* drivers
are converted in this series.
3) kill the old (renamed) methods.
Note that it _is_ a flagday; all in-tree drivers are converted and by the
end of this series no trace of old methods remain. The only reason why
we do that this way is to keep the damn thing bisectable and allow per-driver
debugging if anything goes wrong.
New methods:
open(bdev, mode)
release(disk, mode)
ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg) /* Called without BKL */
compat_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg)
locked_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg) /* Called with BKL, legacy */
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The I2O ioctls assume 32bits. In itself that is fine as they are old
cards and nobody uses 64bit. However on LKML it was noted this
assumption is also made for allocated memory and is unsafe on 64bit
systems.
Fixing this is a mess. It turns out there is tons of crap buried in a
header file that does racy 32/64bit filtering on the masks.
So we:
- Verify all callers of the racy code can sleep (i2o_dma_[re]alloc)
- Move the code into a new i2o/memory.c file
- Remove the gfp_mask argument so nobody can try and misuse the function
- Wrap a mutex around the problem area (a single mutex is easy to do and
none of this is performance relevant)
- Switch the remaining problem kmalloc holdout to use i2o_dma_alloc
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Compile warning:
ignoring return value of `sysfs_create_link', declared with attribute warn_unused_result.
If sysfs_create_link failed, take care of the return value and do some
error handle after the failure.
Since sysfs_remove_link() will check whether a link exists, when removing the
link in error path, we don't need to care whether a link was created.
Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch converts i2o_block to use blk_end_request interfaces.
Related 'uptodate' arguments are converted to 'error'.
As a result, the interface of internal function, i2o_block_end_request(),
is changed.
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This replaces sizeof sense_buffer with SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE in
several LLDs. It's a preparation for the future changes to remove
sense_buffer array in scsi_cmnd structure.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
* Convert files to UTF-8.
* Also correct some people's names
(one example is Eißfeldt, which was found in a source file.
Given that the author used an ß at all in a source file
indicates that the real name has in fact a 'ß' and not an 'ss',
which is commonly used as a substitute for 'ß' when limited to
7bit.)
* Correct town names (Goettingen -> Göttingen)
* Update Eberhard Mönkeberg's address (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/8/313)
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Alexey Dobriyan
Linus Torvalds
Randy Dunlap
Kay Sievers
Frederik Schwarzer
Alan Cox
Qinghuang Feng
Nick Andrew
Al Viro
Alan Cox
Wang Chen
Jonathan Corbet
Arnd Bergmann
Hirofumi Nakagawa
Denis V. Lunev
Joe Perches
Kiyoshi Ueda
FUJITA Tomonori
Vasily Averin
Jens Axboe
Jan Engelhardt