This bothered me for some time now and to me it seems like
a bug in the above mentioned function. I won't bother
explaining, it is fairly obvious.
--- virgin/kernel/sysctl.c Sat Jan 9 07:54:16 1999
+++ linux/kernel/sysctl.c Tue Feb 2 18:47:43 1999
@@ -559,8 +559,8 @@
unregister_proc_table(table->child, de);
}
/* Don't unregister proc directories which still have
- entries... */
- if (!((de->mode & S_IFDIR) && de->subdir)) {
+ entries or are still being used... */
+ if (!((de->mode & S_IFDIR) && de->subdir) && !de->count)
{
proc_unregister(root, de->low_ino);
table->de = NULL;
kfree(de);
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