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| author | Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> | 2018-08-21 21:55:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-08-22 10:52:46 -0700 |
| commit | e58dd0de5eadf145895b13451a1fef8ef03946eb (patch) | |
| tree | f5db856cd6e69abf35e136e8c2666469ac6b51d3 /mm/backing-dev.c | |
| parent | cedc5b6aab493f6b1b1d381dccc0cc082da7d3d8 (diff) | |
bdi: use refcount_t for reference counting instead atomic_t
refcount_t type and corresponding API should be used instead of atomic_t
when the variable is used as a reference counter. This permits avoiding
accidental refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
situations.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703200141.28415-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/backing-dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/backing-dev.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index 2e5d3df0853d..55a233d75f39 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -438,10 +438,10 @@ retry: if (new_congested) { /* !found and storage for new one already allocated, insert */ congested = new_congested; - new_congested = NULL; rb_link_node(&congested->rb_node, parent, node); rb_insert_color(&congested->rb_node, &bdi->cgwb_congested_tree); - goto found; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cgwb_lock, flags); + return congested; } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cgwb_lock, flags); @@ -451,13 +451,13 @@ retry: if (!new_congested) return NULL; - atomic_set(&new_congested->refcnt, 0); + refcount_set(&new_congested->refcnt, 1); new_congested->__bdi = bdi; new_congested->blkcg_id = blkcg_id; goto retry; found: - atomic_inc(&congested->refcnt); + refcount_inc(&congested->refcnt); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cgwb_lock, flags); kfree(new_congested); return congested; @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ void wb_congested_put(struct bdi_writeback_congested *congested) unsigned long flags; local_irq_save(flags); - if (!atomic_dec_and_lock(&congested->refcnt, &cgwb_lock)) { + if (!refcount_dec_and_lock(&congested->refcnt, &cgwb_lock)) { local_irq_restore(flags); return; } @@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ static int cgwb_bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) if (!bdi->wb_congested) return -ENOMEM; - atomic_set(&bdi->wb_congested->refcnt, 1); + refcount_set(&bdi->wb_congested->refcnt, 1); err = wb_init(&bdi->wb, bdi, 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (err) { |