On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 08:41:47AM -0500, Zhu Yanjun wrote: > The pool state is the duplicate of pool ref_cnt. If ref_cnt > 0, > it indicates that state is valid. If ref_cnt = 0, it indicates > that state is invalid. > > Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@xxxxxxxxxx> > V1->V2: Follow Jason's advice, the state is replaced with ref_cnt. > drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c | 20 +++----------------- > drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.h | 6 ------ > 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c > index 36b53fb..d8f969d 100644 > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c > @@ -222,8 +222,6 @@ int rxe_pool_init( > pool->key_size = rxe_type_info[type].key_size; > } > > - pool->state = RXE_POOL_STATE_VALID; > - > out: > return err; > } > @@ -232,7 +230,6 @@ static void rxe_pool_release(struct kref *kref) > { > struct rxe_pool *pool = container_of(kref, struct rxe_pool, ref_cnt); > > - pool->state = RXE_POOL_STATE_INVALID; > kfree(pool->table); > } > > @@ -243,14 +240,9 @@ static void rxe_pool_put(struct rxe_pool *pool) > > int rxe_pool_cleanup(struct rxe_pool *pool) > { > - unsigned long flags; > - > - write_lock_irqsave(&pool->pool_lock, flags); > - pool->state = RXE_POOL_STATE_INVALID; > if (atomic_read(&pool->num_elem) > 0) > pr_warn("%s pool destroyed with unfree'd elem\n", > pool_name(pool)); > - write_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->pool_lock, flags); > > rxe_pool_put(pool); > > @@ -380,17 +372,11 @@ void rxe_drop_index(void *arg) > void *rxe_alloc(struct rxe_pool *pool) > { > struct rxe_pool_entry *elem; > - unsigned long flags; > > might_sleep_if(!(pool->flags & RXE_POOL_ATOMIC)); > > - read_lock_irqsave(&pool->pool_lock, flags); > - if (pool->state != RXE_POOL_STATE_VALID) { > - read_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->pool_lock, flags); > + if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&pool->ref_cnt)) > return NULL; > - } > - kref_get(&pool->ref_cnt); > - read_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->pool_lock, flags); > > kref_get(&pool->rxe->ref_cnt); > > @@ -438,7 +424,7 @@ void *rxe_pool_get_index(struct rxe_pool *pool, u32 index) > > read_lock_irqsave(&pool->pool_lock, flags); > > - if (pool->state != RXE_POOL_STATE_VALID) > + if (!kref_read(&pool->ref_cnt)) > goto out; These kref_reads make no sense, the caller has to be holding a kref on pool to call this API, otherwise it is already a free'd pointer. So there is no reason to check the kref. Did you audit that all callers hold the kref? Jason