Re: [PATCH 1/2] proc: revalidate directories created with proc_net_mkdir()

[Al Viro]

On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 07:52:02PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> +struct proc_dir_entry *_proc_mkdir(const char *name, umode_t mode,
> +                                struct proc_dir_entry **parent, void *data)

        Two underscores, please...

> +     parent->nlink++;
> +     pde = proc_register(parent, pde);
> +     if (!pde)
> +             parent->nlink++;

        Really?