percpu-ref: fix DEAD flag contamination of percpu pointer
While decoupling ATOMIC and DEAD flags, f47ad457 ("percpu_ref: decouple switching to percpu mode and reinit") updated __ref_is_percpu() so that it only tests ATOMIC flag to determine whether the ref is in percpu mode or not; however, while DEAD implies ATOMIC, the two flags are set separately during percpu_ref_kill() and if __ref_is_percpu() races percpu_ref_kill(), it may see DEAD w/o ATOMIC. Because __ref_is_percpu() returns @ref->percpu_count_ptr value verbatim as the percpu pointer after testing ATOMIC, the pointer may now be contaminated with the DEAD flag. This can be fixed by clearing the flag bits before returning the pointer which was the fix proposed by Shaohua; however, as DEAD implies ATOMIC, we can just test for both flags at once and avoid the explicit masking. Update __ref_is_percpu() so that it tests that both ATOMIC and DEAD are clear before returning @ref->percpu_count_ptr as the percpu pointer. Signed-off-by:Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-and-Reviewed-by:
Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/995deb699f5b873c45d667df4add3b06f73c2c25.1416638887.git.shli@kernel.org Fixes: f47ad457 ("percpu_ref: decouple switching to percpu mode and reinit")
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