From: "Denis V. Lunev" Use proc_create() to make sure that ->proc_fops be setup before gluing PDE to main tree. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/swapfile.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/swapfile.c~mm-use-non-racy-method-for-proc-swaps-creation mm/swapfile.c --- a/mm/swapfile.c~mm-use-non-racy-method-for-proc-swaps-creation +++ a/mm/swapfile.c @@ -1426,11 +1426,7 @@ static const struct file_operations proc static int __init procswaps_init(void) { - struct proc_dir_entry *entry; - - entry = create_proc_entry("swaps", 0, NULL); - if (entry) - entry->proc_fops = &proc_swaps_operations; + proc_create("swaps", 0, NULL, &proc_swaps_operations); return 0; } __initcall(procswaps_init); _