Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:45:26 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] proc: detect duplicate names on registration
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:08:40 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> Andrew, please drop procfs-detect-duplicate-names.patch and apply this
> instead.
> ------------
> [PATCH] proc: detect duplicate names on registration
> 
> From: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
> 
> 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]
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
> ---
> 
>  fs/proc/generic.c |   10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/fs/proc/generic.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/generic.c

> @@ -536,6 +537,15 @@ 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 "PDE '%s' already registered\n",
> +				dp->name);
> +			dump_stack();
> +			break;
> +		}
> +

Please just s/PDE/proc_dir_entry/.

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~Randy
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