Re: [PATCH 00/11] Introduce Simple atomic and non-atomic counters

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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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