On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 9:35 PM Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 09:11:00PM +0800, Chuhong Yuan wrote: > > Reference counters are preferred to use refcount_t instead of > > atomic_t. > > This is because the implementation of refcount_t can prevent > > overflows and detect possible use-after-free. > > So convert atomic_t ref counters to refcount_t. > > Thanks! > > I think there are more reference counters in blkback than > the one you fixed. There's also an inflight field in xen_blkif_ring, > and a pendcnt in pending_req which look like possible candidates to > switch to use refcount_t, have you looked into switching those two > also? > I will switch those two in next version. > Roger.
