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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	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>, 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: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:39:05 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1611111532220.3501@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161111130034.GO3157@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Fri, 11 Nov 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> A wee bit like so...
> +
> +static inline bool refcount_sub_and_test(int i, refcount_t *r)

Why would we want to expose that at all? refcount_inc() and
refcount_dec_and_test() is what is required for refcounting.

I know there are a few users of kref_sub() in tree, but that's all
undocumented voodoo, which should not be proliferated.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-11 14:42 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 [this message]
2016-11-11 14:48                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-11 23:07                     ` Peter Zijlstra
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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