Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: pblk: avoid ref warning on cache creation

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On 11/23/2018 11:04 AM, Hans Holmberg wrote:
Great catch Javier! Nice refactoring work too.

Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 2:47 PM Javier González <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The current kref implementation around pblk global caches triggers a
false positive on refcount_inc_checked() (when called) as the kref is
initialized to 0. Instead of usint kref_inc() on a 0 reference, which is
in principle correct, use kref_init() to avoid the check. This is also
more explicit about what actually happens on cache creation.

In the process, do a small refactoring to use kref helpers.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c | 14 +++++---------
  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c
index 13822594647c..e225bd60cbb4 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c
@@ -350,23 +350,19 @@ static int pblk_create_global_caches(void)

  static int pblk_get_global_caches(void)
  {
-       int ret;
+       int ret = 0;

         mutex_lock(&pblk_caches.mutex);

-       if (kref_read(&pblk_caches.kref) > 0) {
-               kref_get(&pblk_caches.kref);
-               mutex_unlock(&pblk_caches.mutex);
-               return 0;
-       }
+       if (kref_get_unless_zero(&pblk_caches.kref))
+               goto out;

         ret = pblk_create_global_caches();
-
         if (!ret)
-               kref_get(&pblk_caches.kref);
+               kref_init(&pblk_caches.kref);

+out:
         mutex_unlock(&pblk_caches.mutex);
-
         return ret;
  }

--
2.7.4


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