Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:21:17 +0200
From: Michael van Elst <mlel...@serpens.de>
Message-ID: <zdv67xp1ngvhy...@serpens.de>
| In that state then decrementing dk_rawopens beyond zero will make
| dklastclose do the right thing: nothing.
Except that if that happens, dk_rawopens will be left == ~0 and the next
open attempt will then increment it, back to 0 again, which is almost
certainly not what was wanted.
dklastclose() used to have code in it like
if (...->dk_rawopens > 0) {
if (--...->dk_rawopens == 0)
so that the -- would never be performed if rawopens was 0 when entered.
| When you want to check for overflows of dk_rawopens (which is difficult
| to overflow as you had to create 2^32 wedges)
It wasn't the overflow that Taylor meant, but this underflow (from 0 -> ~0)
which might be a problem.
(Not really relevant, but it wouldn't be 2^32 wedges, but 2^32 simultaneous
opens of any single wedge, right ... but that's not the real issue, that one
probably can't happen on any normal system, the file table could never get
big enough to allow 2^32 simultaneous opens of everything, let alone one
device).
Either dklastclose() can be called when dk_rawopens == 0 (in which case
the current code is broken) or it cannot, in which case the assertion would
have just verified that.
kre
