V4L/DVB (7580): Fix concurrent read from /proc/videocodecs
Observation one: ->write_proc and ->data assignments aren't needed. Removed.
Observation two: codecs lists are unprotected. Patch doesn't fix this.
Observation three:
/proc/videocodecs printout is done to temporary _global_ buffer which
is freed in between. Consequently, two users hitting this file can
screwup each other.
Steps to reproduce:
modprobe videocodec
while true; do cat /proc/videocodecs &>/dev/null; done &
while true; do cat /proc/videocodecs &>/dev/null; done &
The fix is switching to seq_files, this removes code, especially some
line-length "logic".
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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