linux/include
Bruce Allan f35279d3f7 [PATCH] sunrpc: cache_register can use wrong module reference
When registering an RPC cache, cache_register() always sets the owner as the
sunrpc module.  However, there are RPC caches owned by other modules.  With
the incorrect owner setting, the real owning module can be removed potentially
with an open reference to the cache from userspace.

For example, if one were to stop the nfs server and unmount the nfsd
filesystem, the nfsd module could be removed eventhough rpc.idmapd had
references to the idtoname and nametoid caches (i.e.
/proc/net/rpc/nfs4.<cachename>/channel is still open).  This resulted in a
system panic on one of our machines when attempting to restart the nfs
services after reloading the nfsd module.

The following patch adds a 'struct module *owner' field in struct
cache_detail.  The owner is further assigned to the struct proc_dir_entry
in cache_register() so that the module cannot be unloaded while user-space
daemons have an open reference on the associated file under /proc.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bwa@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:25 -07:00
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acpi /home/lenb/src/to-linus branch 'acpi-2.6.12' 2005-07-29 23:31:17 -04:00
asm-alpha [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-arm [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-arm26 [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-cris [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-frv [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-generic Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2005-09-06 00:35:51 -07:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-ia64 [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-mips [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-parisc [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-powerpc [PATCH] ppc/ppc64: Merge more include files 2005-09-06 16:07:53 +10:00
asm-ppc [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-ppc64 [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-s390 [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-sh [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-sh64 [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-sparc [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-sparc64 [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-um [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups 2005-09-07 16:57:21 -07:00
linux [PATCH] sunrpc: cache_register can use wrong module reference 2005-09-07 16:57:25 -07:00
math-emu
media [PATCH] I2C: Kill i2c_algorithm.id (6/7) 2005-09-05 09:14:32 -07:00
mtd
net [NET]: Do not protect sysctl_optmem_max with CONFIG_SYSCTL 2005-09-05 18:14:11 -07:00
pcmcia [PATCH] pcmcia: fix pcmcia-cs compilation 2005-07-12 16:00:59 -07:00
rdma [PATCH] IB: move include files to include/rdma 2005-08-26 20:37:38 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] fix target scanning oops with fc transport class 2005-08-08 17:14:55 -05:00
sound [ALSA] version 1.0.10rc1 2005-08-30 08:48:35 +02:00
video [PATCH] DEC PMAGB B framebuffer update 2005-09-05 00:06:03 -07:00