From: Alexey Dobriyan If valid "parent" is passed to proc_create/remove_proc_entry(), then name of PDE should consist of only one path component, otherwise creation or or removal will fail. However, if NULL is passed as parent then create/remove accept full path as a argument. This is arbitrary restriction -- all infrastructure is in place. So, patch allows the following to succeed: create_proc_entry("foo/bar", 0, pde_baz); remove_proc_entry("baz/foo/bar", &proc_root); Also makes the following to behave identically: create_proc_entry("foo/bar", 0, NULL); create_proc_entry("foo/bar", 0, &proc_root); Discrepancy noticed by Den Lunev (IIRC). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/proc/generic.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/proc/generic.c~proc-less-special-case-in-xlate-code fs/proc/generic.c --- a/fs/proc/generic.c~proc-less-special-case-in-xlate-code +++ a/fs/proc/generic.c @@ -277,8 +277,11 @@ static int xlate_proc_name(const char *n int len; int rtn = 0; + de = *ret; + if (!de) + de = &proc_root; + spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock); - de = &proc_root; while (1) { next = strchr(cp, '/'); if (!next) @@ -582,7 +585,7 @@ static struct proc_dir_entry *__proc_cre /* make sure name is valid */ if (!name || !strlen(name)) goto out; - if (!(*parent) && xlate_proc_name(name, parent, &fn) != 0) + if (xlate_proc_name(name, parent, &fn) != 0) goto out; /* At this point there must not be any '/' characters beyond *fn */ @@ -738,7 +741,7 @@ void remove_proc_entry(const char *name, const char *fn = name; int len; - if (!parent && xlate_proc_name(name, &parent, &fn) != 0) + if (xlate_proc_name(name, &parent, &fn) != 0) return; len = strlen(fn); _