Re: [PATCH for-rc] iw_cxgb4: Fix refcount underflow while destroying cqs.

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On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 05:01:30PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 10:02:31AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 03:57:39PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > 
> > > We are talking about two different issues that this refcount_read patch pointed.
> > > You are focused on wrong usage of completion, I saw useless compare of
> > > refcount_t with 0 that can't be.
> > 
> > It can be zero. Anything that does refcount_dec_and_test() can make
> > the refcount be zero.
> 
> It can be, but it is not the case at least for iwpm.

That is even more broken then. Structs with non-zero refcounts in them
should not be freed.

Jason



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