linux/fs/proc
Alexey Dobriyan 2d3a4e3666 proc: fix ->open'less usage due to ->proc_fops flip
Typical PDE creation code looks like:

	pde = create_proc_entry("foo", 0, NULL);
	if (pde)
		pde->proc_fops = &foo_proc_fops;

Notice that PDE is first created, only then ->proc_fops is set up to
final value. This is a problem because right after creation
a) PDE is fully visible in /proc , and
b) ->proc_fops are proc_file_operations which do not have ->open callback. So, it's
   possible to ->read without ->open (see one class of oopses below).

The fix is new API called proc_create() which makes sure ->proc_fops are
set up before gluing PDE to main tree. Typical new code looks like:

	pde = proc_create("foo", 0, NULL, &foo_proc_fops);
	if (!pde)
		return -ENOMEM;

Fix most networking users for a start.

In the long run, create_proc_entry() for regular files will go.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000024
printing eip: c1188c1b *pdpt = 000000002929e001 *pde = 0000000000000000
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
last sysfs file: /sys/block/sda/sda1/dev
Modules linked in: foo af_packet ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand loop serio_raw psmouse k8temp hwmon sr_mod cdrom

Pid: 24679, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.24-rc3-mm1 #2)
EIP: 0060:[<c1188c1b>] EFLAGS: 00210002 CPU: 0
EIP is at mutex_lock_nested+0x75/0x25d
EAX: 000006fe EBX: fffffffb ECX: 00001000 EDX: e9340570
ESI: 00000020 EDI: 00200246 EBP: e9340570 ESP: e8ea1ef8
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
Process cat (pid: 24679, ti=E8EA1000 task=E9340570 task.ti=E8EA1000)
Stack: 00000000 c106f7ce e8ee05b4 00000000 00000001 458003d0 f6fb6f20 fffffffb
       00000000 c106f7aa 00001000 c106f7ce 08ae9000 f6db53f0 00000020 00200246
       00000000 00000002 00000000 00200246 00200246 e8ee05a0 fffffffb e8ee0550
Call Trace:
 [<c106f7ce>] seq_read+0x24/0x28a
 [<c106f7aa>] seq_read+0x0/0x28a
 [<c106f7ce>] seq_read+0x24/0x28a
 [<c106f7aa>] seq_read+0x0/0x28a
 [<c10818b8>] proc_reg_read+0x60/0x73
 [<c1081858>] proc_reg_read+0x0/0x73
 [<c105a34f>] vfs_read+0x6c/0x8b
 [<c105a6f3>] sys_read+0x3c/0x63
 [<c10025f2>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0xa5
 [<c10697a7>] destroy_inode+0x24/0x33
 =======================
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
Code: 75 21 68 e1 1a 19 c1 68 87 00 00 00 68 b8 e8 1f c1 68 25 73 1f c1 e8 84 06 e9 ff e8 52 b8 e7 ff 83 c4 10 9c 5f fa e8 28 89 ea ff <f0> fe 4e 04 79 0a f3 90 80 7e 04 00 7e f8 eb f0 39 76 34 74 33
EIP: [<c1188c1b>] mutex_lock_nested+0x75/0x25d SS:ESP 0068:e8ea1ef8

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:24 -08:00
..
array.c proc: seqfile convert proc_pid_status to properly handle pid namespaces 2008-02-08 09:22:24 -08:00
base.c proc: fix the threaded /proc/self 2008-02-08 09:22:24 -08:00
generic.c proc: fix ->open'less usage due to ->proc_fops flip 2008-02-08 09:22:24 -08:00
inode-alloc.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
inode.c proc: remove MODULE_LICENSE 2008-02-08 09:22:23 -08:00
internal.h proc: seqfile convert proc_pid_status to properly handle pid namespaces 2008-02-08 09:22:24 -08:00
kcore.c is_vmalloc_addr(): Check if an address is within the vmalloc boundaries 2008-02-05 09:44:14 -08:00
kmsg.c [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const 2006-03-28 09:16:06 -08:00
Makefile [NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespace 2007-10-10 16:49:06 -07:00
mmu.c fs/proc/mmu.c: headers butchery 2007-10-17 08:42:48 -07:00
nommu.c [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 6 2007-02-12 09:48:45 -08:00
proc_devtree.c [POWERPC] Make struct property's value a void * 2007-04-13 03:55:18 +10:00
proc_misc.c proc: loadavg reading race 2008-02-06 10:41:04 -08:00
proc_net.c proc: fix ->open'less usage due to ->proc_fops flip 2008-02-08 09:22:24 -08:00
proc_sysctl.c Fix pointer mismatches in proc_sysctl.c 2007-10-25 15:16:49 -07:00
proc_tty.c proc: simplify function prototypes 2008-02-08 09:22:23 -08:00
root.c proc: fix ->open'less usage due to ->proc_fops flip 2008-02-08 09:22:24 -08:00
task_mmu.c proc: seqfile convert proc_pid_status to properly handle pid namespaces 2008-02-08 09:22:24 -08:00
task_nommu.c proc: seqfile convert proc_pid_status to properly handle pid namespaces 2008-02-08 09:22:24 -08:00
vmcore.c [PATCH] i386: Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps 2007-05-02 19:27:09 +02:00