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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>2007-05-08 00:25:49 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-08 11:15:02 -0700
commit578c8183c116e623d53b05d4c79762d053c7090f (patch)
tree783cb8471e5efdb486fc7dd4f5de53038a96f8a7 /fs/proc/inode.c
parent59cd0cbc75367b82f704f63b104117462275060d (diff)
downloadlinux-578c8183c116e623d53b05d4c79762d053c7090f.tar.gz
proc: remove pathetic ->deleted WARN_ON
WARN_ON(de && de->deleted); is sooo unreliable. Why?

proc_lookup				remove_proc_entry
===========				=================
lock_kernel();
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
[find proc entry]
spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
					spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
					[find proc entry]

proc_get_inode
==============
WARN_ON(de && de->deleted);			...

					if (!atomic_read(&de->count))
						free_proc_entry(de);
					else
						de->deleted = 1;

So, if you have some strange oops [1], and doesn't see this WARN_ON it means
nothing.

[1] try_module_get() of module which doesn't exist, two lines below
    should suffice, or not?

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/inode.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/inode.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/inode.c b/fs/proc/inode.c
index d1de6378930c..b8171907c83b 100644
--- a/fs/proc/inode.c
+++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
@@ -146,8 +146,6 @@ struct inode *proc_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, unsigned int ino,
 {
 	struct inode * inode;
 
-	WARN_ON(de && de->deleted);
-
 	if (de != NULL && !try_module_get(de->owner))
 		goto out_mod;