From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mlx4_en: do batched put_page using atomic_sub Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 20:07:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20160419.200709.1456260686653504927.davem@davemloft.net> References: <146097924572.15144.10837875571142670008.stgit@buzz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, yishaih@mellanox.com, eugenia@mellanox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru Return-path: In-Reply-To: <146097924572.15144.10837875571142670008.stgit@buzz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Konstantin Khlebnikov Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:34:05 +0300 > This patch fixes couple error paths after allocation failures. > Atomic set of page reference counter is safe only if it is zero, > otherwise set can race with any speculative get_page_unless_zero. > > Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Applied.