Re: [PATCH] io context: fix ref counting

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Jul 31 2009, Li Zefan wrote:
> Commit d9c7d394a8ebacb60097b192939ae9f15235225e
> ("block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow") mistakenly
> changed atomic_inc(&ioc->nr_tasks) to atomic_long_inc(&ioc->refcount).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/iocontext.h |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/iocontext.h b/include/linux/iocontext.h
> index dd05434..4da4a75 100644
> --- a/include/linux/iocontext.h
> +++ b/include/linux/iocontext.h
> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ static inline struct io_context *ioc_task_link(struct io_context *ioc)
>  	 * a race).
>  	 */
>  	if (ioc && atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&ioc->refcount)) {
> -		atomic_long_inc(&ioc->refcount);
> +		atomic_inc(&ioc->nr_tasks);
>  		return ioc;
>  	}

Irk, good catch. Applied to immediate upstream branch.

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Jens Axboe