b30feeef31eee2c parent 79c0b2df79eb56fc71e54c75cd7fb3acf84370f9 author Alexey Dobriyan 1178609145 -0700 committer Linus Torvalds 1178648101 -0700 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: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds