From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: adobriyan@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: delete /proc THIS_MODULE references
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:50:12 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180115.145012.1807423040561212598.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180113171152.GB1016@avx2>
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:11:52 +0300
> /proc has been ignoring struct file_operations::owner field for ages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
What, then, makes sure that the procfs files are unregistered before the
referencing module is unloaded?
Please explain the situation, and add a reference to the commit that
made procfs stop using the fops owner field. That commit and it's
commit message may help explain why all of this is fine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-15 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-13 17:11 [PATCH] net: delete /proc THIS_MODULE references Alexey Dobriyan
2018-01-15 19:50 ` David Miller [this message]
2018-01-15 20:40 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-01-15 23:01 ` Al Viro
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