On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 09:37:43AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 01:47:12PM +0530, Deepak R Varma wrote: > > The refcount_* APIs are designed to address known issues with the > > atomic_t APIs for reference counting. They provide following distinct > > advantages: > > - protect the reference counters from overflow/underflow > > - avoid use-after-free errors > > - provide improved memory ordering guarantee schemes > > - neater and safer. > > Hence, replace the atomic_* APIs by their equivalent refcount_t > > API functions. > > > > This patch proposal address the following warnings generated by > > the atomic_as_refcounter.cocci coccinelle script > > atomic_add_return(-1, ...) > > > > Signed-off-by: Deepak R Varma <drv@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > This depends on the previous patch you sent, so why wasn't this a patch > series? Always send patches as a series, otherwise I would have > attempted to apply this one first and it would have failed. You will > recieve 0-day reports about that happening over the next few days as our > testing infrastructure will also be confused. My apologies. I will send in the patches in a series and highlight the dependency as well. Sorry. ./drv > > Please fix and resend all changes you wish to have done to this driver > together. > > thanks, > > greg k-h
