[patch] Re: [patch] /proc race fixes for 2.2.1 (fwd)

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:13:00 +0100 (CET)


On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Richard Kail wrote:

> There seems to be anoter /proc race in the 2.2.1 linux kernel.

That's not a race but it's a simple and pretty harmless bug.

> I will explain this with an example:
>
> modprobe coda.o # will load coda.o as dynamically module
> # the kernel will create a /proc/fs/coda directory
> # on the fly.
>
> cd /proc/fs/coda # make shell chdir("/proc/fs/coda")
>
> rmmod coda.o # works ! (shouldn't)
>
> ls -l # generate a oops.

Here the bugfix against 2.2.1:

Index: sysctl.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/linux/fs/coda/sysctl.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.2.1
diff -u -r1.1.2.1 sysctl.c
--- sysctl.c 1999/01/18 01:32:43 1.1.2.1
+++ linux/fs/coda/sysctl.c 1999/02/03 14:09:28
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include <asm/segment.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/utsname.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>

#include <linux/coda.h>
#include <linux/coda_linux.h>
@@ -491,6 +492,14 @@
coda_cache_inv_stats_get_info
};

+static void coda_proc_modcount(struct inode *inode, int fill)
+{
+ if (fill)
+ MOD_INC_USE_COUNT;
+ else
+ MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT;
+}
+
#endif


@@ -504,6 +513,7 @@

#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
proc_register(&proc_root_fs,&proc_fs_coda);
+ proc_fs_coda.fill_inode = &coda_proc_modcount;
proc_register(&proc_fs_coda,&proc_coda_vfs);
proc_register(&proc_fs_coda,&proc_coda_upcall);
proc_register(&proc_fs_coda,&proc_coda_permission);

Tell me if it doesn't work please (I don't use coda myself (I don't have a
laptop yet ;)).

Andrea Arcangeli

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