On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 08:27:42AM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 06:39:46PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > This series unfscks kref and then implements it in terms of refcount_t. > > > > x86_64-allyesconfig compile tested and boot tested with my regular config. > > > > refcount_t is as per the previous thread, it BUGs on over-/underflow and > > saturates at UINT_MAX, such that if we ever overflow, we'll never free > > again. > > > > > > Thanks so much for doing these, at the very least, I want to take the > kref-abuse-fixes now as those users shouldn't be doing those foolish > things. Any objection for me taking some of them through my tree now?
None at all, but please double check at least the 'kill kref_sub()' one, I might have messed up drbd or something, that code isn't entirely transparant.
