proc: detect duplicate names on registration
Print a warning if PDE is registered with a name which already exists in
target directory.
Bug report and a simple fix can be found here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8798
[\n fixlet and no undescriptive variable usage --adobriyan]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make printk comprehensible]
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
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>
diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index e37ea3e..b9dd362 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -521,6 +521,7 @@
static int proc_register(struct proc_dir_entry * dir, struct proc_dir_entry * dp)
{
unsigned int i;
+ struct proc_dir_entry *tmp;
i = get_inode_number();
if (i == 0)
@@ -544,6 +545,15 @@
}
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
+
+ for (tmp = dir->subdir; tmp; tmp = tmp->next)
+ if (strcmp(tmp->name, dp->name) == 0) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "proc_dir_entry '%s' already "
+ "registered\n", dp->name);
+ dump_stack();
+ break;
+ }
+
dp->next = dir->subdir;
dp->parent = dir;
dir->subdir = dp;