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Message-ID: <20190531111445.GO2677@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 13:14:45 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, raven@...maw.net,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
linux-security-module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] General notification queue with user mmap()'able
ring buffer
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 10:02:43PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> > Does this mean that refcount_read() isn't sufficient for what you want
> > to do with tracing (because for some reason you actually need to know
> > the values atomically at the time of increment/decrement)?
>
> Correct. There's a gap and if an interrupt or something occurs, it's
> sufficiently big for the refcount trace to go weird.
>
> I've seen it in afs/rxrpc where the incoming network packets that are part of
> the rxrpc call flow disrupt the refcounts noted in trace lines.
Can you re-iterate the exact problem? I konw we talked about this in the
past, but I seem to have misplaced those memories :/
FWIW I agree that kref is useless fluff, but I've long ago given up on
that fight.
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