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locking/refcounts: Change WARN() to WARN_ONCE() 

Linus noticed that the new refcount.h APIs used WARN(), which would turn
into a dmesg DoS if it triggers frequently on some buggy driver.

So make sure we only warn once. These warnings are never supposed to happen,
so it's typically not a problem to lose subsequent warnings.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzbYUTZ=oqZ2YgDjY0C2_n6ODhTfqj6V+m5xWmDxsuB0w@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Ingo Molnar 2017-03-01 09:25:55 +01:00
parent 2d6be4abf5
commit 9dcfe2c75b
1 changed files with 7 additions and 7 deletions
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@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ bool refcount_add_not_zero(unsigned int i, refcount_t *r)
val = old;
}
WARN(new == UINT_MAX, "refcount_t: saturated; leaking memory.\n");
WARN_ONCE(new == UINT_MAX, "refcount_t: saturated; leaking memory.\n");
return true;
}
@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(refcount_add_not_zero);
void refcount_add(unsigned int i, refcount_t *r)
{
WARN(!refcount_add_not_zero(i, r), "refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.\n");
WARN_ONCE(!refcount_add_not_zero(i, r), "refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.\n");
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(refcount_add);
@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ bool refcount_inc_not_zero(refcount_t *r)
val = old;
}
WARN(new == UINT_MAX, "refcount_t: saturated; leaking memory.\n");
WARN_ONCE(new == UINT_MAX, "refcount_t: saturated; leaking memory.\n");
return true;
}
@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(refcount_inc_not_zero);
*/
void refcount_inc(refcount_t *r)
{
WARN(!refcount_inc_not_zero(r), "refcount_t: increment on 0; use-after-free.\n");
WARN_ONCE(!refcount_inc_not_zero(r), "refcount_t: increment on 0; use-after-free.\n");
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(refcount_inc);
@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ bool refcount_sub_and_test(unsigned int i, refcount_t *r)
new = val - i;
if (new > val) {
WARN(new > val, "refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.\n");
WARN_ONCE(new > val, "refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.\n");
return false;
}
@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(refcount_dec_and_test);
void refcount_dec(refcount_t *r)
{
WARN(refcount_dec_and_test(r), "refcount_t: decrement hit 0; leaking memory.\n");
WARN_ONCE(refcount_dec_and_test(r), "refcount_t: decrement hit 0; leaking memory.\n");
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(refcount_dec);
@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ bool refcount_dec_not_one(refcount_t *r)
new = val - 1;
if (new > val) {
WARN(new > val, "refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.\n");
WARN_ONCE(new > val, "refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.\n");
return true;
}