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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: delete /proc THIS_MODULE references
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:50:12 -0500 (EST)
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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.