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Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling

From Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling
Date 2017-04-24 22:40 +0200
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On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:00 AM, PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> wrote:
> On 24 Apr 2017 at 10:32, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 03:09:39PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> > This patch ports the x86-specific atomic overflow handling from PaX's
>> > PAX_REFCOUNT to the upstream refcount_t API. This is an updated version
>> > from PaX that eliminates the saturation race condition by resetting the
>> > atomic counter back to the INT_MAX saturation value on both overflow and
>> > underflow. To win a race, a system would have to have INT_MAX threads
>> > simultaneously overflow before the saturation handler runs.
>
> note that the above is wrong (and even contradicting itself and the code).

True, this changelog could be more accurate (it resets to INT_MAX on
overflow and INT_MIN on underflow). I think I'm right in saying that a
system would need INT_MAX threads running a refcount_inc() (and a
refcount_dec_and_test() at exactly the right moment) before the reset
handler got scheduled, though, yes?

I'll attempt to clarify this.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security

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[PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-22 00:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-04-24 10:40 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast  refcount_t handling Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> - 2017-04-24 11:00 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast  refcount_t handling Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-04-24 11:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling "PaX Team" <pageexec@freemail.hu> - 2017-04-24 13:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-04-24 13:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling "PaX Team" <pageexec@freemail.hu> - 2017-04-24 15:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-04-24 15:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling "PaX Team" <pageexec@freemail.hu> - 2017-04-24 17:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-24 22:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-04-25 00:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-25 00:40 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast  refcount_t handling Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2017-04-25 03:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-04-25 11:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling "PaX Team" <pageexec@freemail.hu> - 2017-04-25 13:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-25 18:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-24 22:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling "PaX Team" <pageexec@freemail.hu> - 2017-04-25 13:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-25 18:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling "PaX Team" <pageexec@freemail.hu> - 2017-04-26 04:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-26 06:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-24 22:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-04-24 12:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-24 22:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-04-24 13:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-24 22:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-04-25 12:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling "PaX Team" <pageexec@freemail.hu> - 2017-04-25 13:30 +0200

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