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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	io-uring <io-uring@vger.kernel.org>,
	 Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
	 Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>,
	"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	 Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/8] Use refcount_t for ucounts reference counting
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:34:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wiNpc5BS2BfZhdDqofJx1G=uasBa2Q1eY4cr8O59Rev2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210118194551.h2hrwof7b3q5vgoi@example.org>

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:46 AM Alexey Gladkov
<gladkov.alexey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry about that. I thought that this code is not needed when switching
> from int to refcount_t. I was wrong.

Well, you _may_ be right. I personally didn't check how the return
value is used.

I only reacted to "it certainly _may_ be used, and there is absolutely
no comment anywhere about why it wouldn't matter".

                 Linus


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-18 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-15 14:57 [RFC PATCH v3 0/8] Count rlimits in each user namespace Alexey Gladkov
2021-01-15 14:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/8] Use refcount_t for ucounts reference counting Alexey Gladkov
2021-01-18  6:06   ` c25050162e: WARNING:at_lib/refcount.c:#refcount_warn_saturate kernel test robot
2021-01-18 19:14   ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/8] Use refcount_t for ucounts reference counting Linus Torvalds
2021-01-18 19:45     ` Alexey Gladkov
2021-01-18 20:34       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-01-18 20:56         ` Alexey Gladkov
2021-01-19  4:35           ` Kaiwan N Billimoria
2021-01-20  1:57           ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-01-20  1:58             ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-01-21 12:04             ` Alexey Gladkov
2021-01-21 15:50               ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-01-21 16:07                 ` Alexey Gladkov
2021-01-15 14:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/8] Add a reference to ucounts for each cred Alexey Gladkov
2021-01-18  6:47   ` 14c3c8a27f: kernel_BUG_at_kernel/cred.c kernel test robot
2021-01-18  8:31   ` [PATCH v4 2/8] Add a reference to ucounts for each cred Alexey Gladkov
2021-01-15 14:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/8] Move RLIMIT_NPROC counter to ucounts Alexey Gladkov
2021-01-15 14:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/8] Move RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE " Alexey Gladkov
2021-01-15 14:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 5/8] Move RLIMIT_SIGPENDING " Alexey Gladkov
2021-01-15 14:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 6/8] Move RLIMIT_MEMLOCK " Alexey Gladkov
2021-01-15 14:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 7/8] Move RLIMIT_NPROC check to the place where we increment the counter Alexey Gladkov
2021-01-15 14:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 8/8] kselftests: Add test to check for rlimit changes in different user namespaces Alexey Gladkov

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