From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [Patch net] netpoll: shut up a kernel warning on refcount Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 08:17:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20170714.081740.1892120761671347344.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1499900201-8676-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davej@codemonkey.org.uk, elena.reshetova@intel.com To: xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:36220 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754500AbdGNPRm (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jul 2017 11:17:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1499900201-8676-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Cong Wang Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:56:41 -0700 > When we convert atomic_t to refcount_t, a new kernel warning > on "increment on 0" is introduced in the netpoll code, > zap_completion_queue(). In fact for this special case, we know > the refcount is 0 and we just have to set it to 1 to satisfy > the following dev_kfree_skb_any(), so we can just use > refcount_set(..., 1) instead. > > Fixes: 633547973ffc ("net: convert sk_buff.users from atomic_t to refcount_t") > Reported-by: Dave Jones > Cc: Reshetova, Elena > Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Applied, thanks Cong.