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Commit 7695650a authored by Alexey Dobriyan's avatar Alexey Dobriyan Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Fix race between proc_get_inode() and remove_proc_entry()



proc_lookup				remove_proc_entry
===========				=================

lock_kernel();
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
[find PDE with refcount 0]
spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
					spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
					[find PDE with refcount 0]
					[check refcount and free PDE]
					spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
proc_get_inode:
	de_get(de); /* boom */

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 79c0b2df
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