Hi Kees,

on 2017/7/25 2:35, Kees Cook wrote:
+static __always_inline __must_check
+int __refcount_add_unless(refcount_t *r, int a, int u)
+{
+       int c, new;
+
+       c = atomic_read(&(r->refs));
+       do {
+               if (unlikely(c == u))
+                       break;
+
+               asm volatile("addl %2,%0\n\t"
+                       REFCOUNT_CHECK_LT_ZERO
+                       : "=r" (new)
+                       : "0" (c), "ir" (a),
+                         [counter] "m" (r->refs.counter)
+                       : "cc", "cx");
here when the result LT_ZERO, you will saturate the r->refs.counter and make the

atomic_try_cmpxchg(&(r->refs), &c, new) bound to fail first time.

maybe we can just saturate the value of variable "new" ?

+
+       } while (!atomic_try_cmpxchg(&(r->refs), &c, new));
+
+       return c;
+}
+

--
Best Regards
Li Kun

Reply via email to