From: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:18:29 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: proc: detect duplicate names on registration
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc1~267
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=94413d8807a3c511a3675be4ce27a4d16d6408ee;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

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 e37ea3e53de..b9dd3628d43 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ static const struct inode_operations proc_dir_inode_operations = {
 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 @@ static int proc_register(struct proc_dir_entry * dir, struct proc_dir_entry * dp
 	}
 
 	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;