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percpu-refcount: Add a WARN() for ref going negative

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>
Kent Overstreet 11 years ago
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lib/percpu-refcount.c

@@ -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);