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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [RFC v4 PATCH 00/13] HARDENED_ATOMIC
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:07:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161111230750.GP3157@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161111130034.GO3157@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 02:00:34PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> +static inline bool refcount_sub_and_test(int i, refcount_t *r)
> +{
> +	unsigned int old, new, val = atomic_read(&r->refs);
> +
> +	for (;;) {

regardless of the sub_and_test vs inc_and_test issue, this should
probably also have:

		if (val == UINT_MAX)
			return false;

such that we stay saturated. If for some reason someone can trigger more
dec's than inc's, we'd be hosed.

> +		new = val - i;
> +		if (new > val)
> +			BUG(); /* underflow */
> +
> +		old = atomic_cmpxchg_release(&r->refs, val, new);
> +		if (old == val)
> +			break;
> +
> +		val = old;
> +	}
> +
> +	return !new;
> +}

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-11 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1478809488-18303-1-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com>
2016-11-10 20:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-10 20:48   ` Will Deacon
2016-11-10 21:01     ` Kees Cook
2016-11-10 21:23       ` [kernel-hardening] " David Windsor
2016-11-10 21:27         ` Kees Cook
2016-11-10 21:39           ` David Windsor
2016-11-10 21:39         ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-10 21:13     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-10 21:23       ` Kees Cook
2016-11-11  4:25         ` [kernel-hardening] " Rik van Riel
2016-11-10 22:27       ` Greg KH
2016-11-10 23:15         ` Kees Cook
2016-11-10 23:38           ` Greg KH
2016-11-10 23:57           ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-11  0:29             ` Colin Vidal
2016-11-11 12:41               ` Mark Rutland
2016-11-11 12:47                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-11 13:00                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-11 14:39                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-11-11 14:48                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-11 23:07                     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-11-13 11:03             ` Greg KH
2016-11-10 20:56   ` Kees Cook
2016-11-11  3:20     ` [kernel-hardening] " David Windsor

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