[PATCH 2/4] ucount: Replace get_ucounts_or_wrap() with atomic_inc_not_zero().

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Mon Feb 03 2025 - 10:10:19 EST


get_ucounts_or_wrap() increments the counter and if the counter is
negative then it decrements it again in order to reset the previous increment.
This statement can be replaced with atomic_inc_not_zero() to only
increment the counter if it is not yet 0.
This simplifies the get function because the put (if the get failed) can
be removed. atomic_inc_not_zero() is implement as a cmpxchg() loop which
can be repeated several times if another get/put is performed in parallel. This
will be optimized later.

Increment the reference counter only if not yet dropped to zero.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/ucount.c | 24 ++++++------------------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/ucount.c b/kernel/ucount.c
index 86c5f1c0bad90..4aa5011538257 100644
--- a/kernel/ucount.c
+++ b/kernel/ucount.c
@@ -146,25 +146,16 @@ static void hlist_add_ucounts(struct ucounts *ucounts)
spin_unlock_irq(&ucounts_lock);
}

-static inline bool get_ucounts_or_wrap(struct ucounts *ucounts)
-{
- /* Returns true on a successful get, false if the count wraps. */
- return !atomic_add_negative(1, &ucounts->count);
-}
-
struct ucounts *get_ucounts(struct ucounts *ucounts)
{
- if (!get_ucounts_or_wrap(ucounts)) {
- put_ucounts(ucounts);
- ucounts = NULL;
- }
- return ucounts;
+ if (atomic_inc_not_zero(&ucounts->count))
+ return ucounts;
+ return NULL;
}

struct ucounts *alloc_ucounts(struct user_namespace *ns, kuid_t uid)
{
struct hlist_head *hashent = ucounts_hashentry(ns, uid);
- bool wrapped;
struct ucounts *ucounts, *new = NULL;

spin_lock_irq(&ucounts_lock);
@@ -189,14 +180,11 @@ struct ucounts *alloc_ucounts(struct user_namespace *ns, kuid_t uid)
return new;
}
}
-
- wrapped = !get_ucounts_or_wrap(ucounts);
+ if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&ucounts->count))
+ ucounts = NULL;
spin_unlock_irq(&ucounts_lock);
kfree(new);
- if (wrapped) {
- put_ucounts(ucounts);
- return NULL;
- }
+
return ucounts;
}

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