kernel/pid.c: convert struct pid count to refcount_t
struct pid's count is an atomic_t field used as a refcount. Use
refcount_t for it which is basically atomic_t but does additional
checking to prevent use-after-free bugs.
For memory ordering, the only change is with the following:
- if ((atomic_read(&pid->count) == 1) ||
- atomic_dec_and_test(&pid->count)) {
+ if (refcount_dec_and_test(&pid->count)) {
kmem_cache_free(ns->pid_cachep, pid);
Here the change is from: Fully ordered --> RELEASE + ACQUIRE (as per
refcount-vs-atomic.rst) This ACQUIRE should take care of making sure the
free happens after the refcount_dec_and_test().
The above hunk also removes atomic_read() since it is not needed for the
code to work and it is unclear how beneficial it is. The removal lets
refcount_dec_and_test() check for cases where get_pid() happened before
the object was freed.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190701183826.191936-1-joel@joelfernandes.org
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfer...>
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