drivers: use non-racy method for proc entries creation
Use proc_create()/proc_create_data() to make sure that ->proc_fops and ->data
be setup before gluing PDE to main tree.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c
index 4d058da..eaace0d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/misc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/misc.c
@@ -263,23 +263,26 @@
static int __init misc_init(void)
{
-#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
- struct proc_dir_entry *ent;
+ int err;
- ent = create_proc_entry("misc", 0, NULL);
- if (ent)
- ent->proc_fops = &misc_proc_fops;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
+ proc_create("misc", 0, NULL, &misc_proc_fops);
#endif
misc_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "misc");
+ err = PTR_ERR(misc_class);
if (IS_ERR(misc_class))
- return PTR_ERR(misc_class);
+ goto fail_remove;
- if (register_chrdev(MISC_MAJOR,"misc",&misc_fops)) {
- printk("unable to get major %d for misc devices\n",
- MISC_MAJOR);
- class_destroy(misc_class);
- return -EIO;
- }
+ err = -EIO;
+ if (register_chrdev(MISC_MAJOR,"misc",&misc_fops))
+ goto fail_printk;
return 0;
+
+fail_printk:
+ printk("unable to get major %d for misc devices\n", MISC_MAJOR);
+ class_destroy(misc_class);
+fail_remove:
+ remove_proc_entry("misc", NULL);
+ return err;
}
subsys_initcall(misc_init);
