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proc: always do ->release
Current two-stage scheme of removing PDE emphasizes one bug in proc:
		open
				rmmod
				remove_proc_entry
		close
->release won't be called because ->proc_fops were cleared.  In simple
cases it's small memory leak.
For every ->open, ->release has to be done.  List of openers is introduced
which is traversed at remove_proc_entry() if neeeded.
Discussions with Al long ago (sigh).
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>