linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] kref improvements

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Date:   Tue, 15 Nov 2016 08:48:18 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     keescook@...omium.org, will.deacon@....com,
        elena.reshetova@...el.com, arnd@...db.de, tglx@...utronix.de,
        mingo@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, dave@...gbits.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] kref improvements

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 08:27:42AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 06:39:46PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > This series unfscks kref and then implements it in terms of refcount_t.
> > 
> > x86_64-allyesconfig compile tested and boot tested with my regular config.
> > 
> > refcount_t is as per the previous thread, it BUGs on over-/underflow and
> > saturates at UINT_MAX, such that if we ever overflow, we'll never free again.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Thanks so much for doing these, at the very least, I want to take the
> kref-abuse-fixes now as those users shouldn't be doing those foolish
> things.  Any objection for me taking some of them through my tree now?

None at all, but please double check at least the 'kill kref_sub()' one,
I might have messed up drbd or something, that code isn't entirely
transparant.