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Commit f57e515a authored by Joel Fernandes (Google)'s avatar Joel Fernandes (Google) Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: KJ Tsanaktsidis <ktsanaktsidis@zendesk.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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