linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net/mlx4_core: Use refcount

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Date:   Tue, 6 Aug 2019 15:36:04 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@...il.com>
Cc:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mlx4_core: Use refcount_t for refcount

On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 10:42:31AM +0800, Chuhong Yuan wrote:
> Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com> 于2019年8月3日周六 上午2:38写道：
> >
> > On Sat, 2019-08-03 at 00:10 +0800, Chuhong Yuan wrote:
> > > Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@...il.com> 于2019年8月2日周五 下午8:10写道：
> > > > refcount_t is better for reference counters since its
> > > > implementation can prevent overflows.
> > > > So convert atomic_t ref counters to refcount_t.
> > > >
> > > > Also convert refcount from 0-based to 1-based.
> > > >
> > >
> > > It seems that directly converting refcount from 0-based
> > > to 1-based is infeasible.
> > > I am sorry for this mistake.
> >
> > Just curious, why not keep it 0 based and use refcout_t ?
> >
> > refcount API should have the same semantics as atomic_t API .. no ?
> 
> refcount API will warn when increase a 0 refcount.
> It regards this as a use-after-free.

If this causes failures then the code is not doing atomic as a
refcount properly anyhow.. 

There are some cases where the atomic refcount is just a imprecise
debugging aide.

Jason