percpu-refcount: Add a WARN() for ref going negative
authorKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Mon, 6 Jan 2014 21:13:26 +0000 (13:13 -0800)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:40:56 +0000 (04:40 -0500)
AIO had a missing get, which led to an ioctx leak - after percpu_ref_kill() the
ref was 0 so percpu_ref_put() never saw it hit 0.

This wasn't noticed at the time because it all happened completely silently,
this adds a WARN() which would've caught the aio bug.

tj: Used WARN_ONCE() instead of WARN().

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
lib/percpu-refcount.c

index 1a53d497a8c53ae460686af6107531c4161eae53..963b7034a51b6e43d058ca3b940b2d8cf491ec9f 100644 (file)
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ static void percpu_ref_kill_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
 
        atomic_add((int) count - PCPU_COUNT_BIAS, &ref->count);
 
+       WARN_ONCE(atomic_read(&ref->count) <= 0, "percpu ref <= 0 (%i)",
+                 atomic_read(&ref->count));
+
        /* @ref is viewed as dead on all CPUs, send out kill confirmation */
        if (ref->confirm_kill)
                ref->confirm_kill(ref);