Subject: Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Convert from atomic_t to refcount_t on rpc_clnt->cl_count

From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 13:47:08 +0300

On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 02:43:26PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-07-17 at 18:18 +0800, Xiyu Yang wrote:
> > refcount_t type and corresponding API can protect refcounters from
> > accidental underflow and overflow and further use-after-free
> > situations.
> > 
> 
> Have you tested this patch? As far as I remember, the reason why we
> never converted is that refcount_inc() gets upset and WARNs when you
> bump a zero refcount, like we do very much on purpose in
> rpc_free_auth(). Is that no longer the case?

It is still the case, they sent gazillion conversion patches with same
mistake.

Thanks

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> Trond Myklebust
> Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
> [email-masked]
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