Commit c4185a0e019387f5ad6e99009804965531fa1fab

Authored by Denis V. Lunev
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent 53978d0a7a

proc: proc_get_inode() should get module only once

Any file under /proc/net opened more than once leaked the refcounter
on the module it belongs to.

The problem is that module_get is called for each file opening while
module_put is called only when /proc inode is destroyed. So, lets put
module counter if we are dealing with already initialised inode.

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10737

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reported-by: Roland Kletzing <devzero@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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425 425 }
426 426 }
427 427 unlock_new_inode(inode);
428   - }
  428 + } else
  429 + module_put(de->owner);
429 430 return inode;
430 431  
431 432 out_ino: