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Alexey Dobriyan committed 1da4d377f94
proc: revalidate misc dentries If module removes proc directory while another process pins it by chdir'ing to it, then subsequent recreation of proc entry and all entries down the tree will not be visible to any process until pinning process unchdir from directory and unpins everything. Steps to reproduce: proc_mkdir("aaa", NULL); proc_create("aaa/bbb", ...); chdir("/proc/aaa"); remove_proc_entry("aaa/bbb", NULL); remove_proc_entry("aaa", NULL); proc_mkdir("aaa", NULL); # inaccessible because "aaa" dentry still points # to the original "aaa". proc_create("aaa/bbb", ...); Fix is to implement ->d_revalidate and ->d_delete. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312201938.GA4871@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>