drivers: use non-racy method for proc entries creation

Use proc_create()/proc_create_data() to make sure that ->proc_fops and ->data
be setup before gluing PDE to main tree.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c
index 4d058dadbfcc..eaace0db0ff4 100644
--- a/drivers/char/misc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/misc.c
@@ -263,23 +263,26 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(misc_deregister);
 
 static int __init misc_init(void)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
-	struct proc_dir_entry *ent;
+	int err;
 
-	ent = create_proc_entry("misc", 0, NULL);
-	if (ent)
-		ent->proc_fops = &misc_proc_fops;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
+	proc_create("misc", 0, NULL, &misc_proc_fops);
 #endif
 	misc_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "misc");
+	err = PTR_ERR(misc_class);
 	if (IS_ERR(misc_class))
-		return PTR_ERR(misc_class);
+		goto fail_remove;
 
-	if (register_chrdev(MISC_MAJOR,"misc",&misc_fops)) {
-		printk("unable to get major %d for misc devices\n",
-		       MISC_MAJOR);
-		class_destroy(misc_class);
-		return -EIO;
-	}
+	err = -EIO;
+	if (register_chrdev(MISC_MAJOR,"misc",&misc_fops))
+		goto fail_printk;
 	return 0;
+
+fail_printk:
+	printk("unable to get major %d for misc devices\n", MISC_MAJOR);
+	class_destroy(misc_class);
+fail_remove:
+	remove_proc_entry("misc", NULL);
+	return err;
 }
 subsys_initcall(misc_init);