From: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: rafael@kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Introduce Simple atomic and non-atomic counters
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 18:13:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d8f86ab-4333-afa1-6523-e42ae5c7d9b2@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202009251650.193E2AD@keescook>
On 9/25/20 5:52 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 05:47:14PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> -- Addressed Kees's comments:
>> 1. Non-atomic counters renamed to counter_simple32 and counter_simple64
>> to clearly indicate size.
>> 2. Added warning for counter_simple* usage and it should be used only
>> when there is no need for atomicity.
>> 3. Renamed counter_atomic to counter_atomic32 to clearly indicate size.
>> 4. Renamed counter_atomic_long to counter_atomic64 and it now uses
>> atomic64_t ops and indicates size.
>> 5. Test updated for the API renames.
>> 6. Added helper functions for test results printing
>> 7. Verified that the test module compiles in kunit env. and test
>> module can be loaded to run the test.
>
> Thanks for all of this!
>
>> 8. Updated Documentation to reflect the intent to make the API
>> restricted so it can never be used to guard object lifetimes
>> and state management. I left _return ops for now, inc_return
>> is necessary for now as per the discussion we had on this topic.
>
> I still *really* do not want dec_return() to exist. That is asking for
> trouble. I'd prefer inc_return() not exist either, but I can live with
> it. ;)
>
Thanks. I am equally concerned about adding anything that can be used to
guard object lifetimes. So I will make sure this set won't expand and
plan to remove dec_return() if we don't find any usages.
thanks,
-- Shuah
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-25 23:47 [PATCH 00/11] Introduce Simple atomic and non-atomic counters Shuah Khan
2020-09-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 07/11] drivers/android/binder: convert stats, transaction_log to counter_atomic32 Shuah Khan
2020-09-27 23:39 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-09-25 23:52 ` [PATCH 00/11] Introduce Simple atomic and non-atomic counters Kees Cook
2020-09-26 0:13 ` Shuah Khan [this message]
2020-09-26 16:33 ` Kees Cook
2020-09-28 22:52 ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-26 16:22 ` Kees Cook
2020-09-28 22:42 ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-26 16:29 ` Kees Cook
2020-09-28 22:41 ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-28 23:13 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-06 15:21 ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-27 23:35 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-09-28 20:34 ` Kees Cook
2020-09-28 21:17 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-09-28 23:01 ` Shuah Khan
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