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diff --git a/include/linux/refcount.h b/include/linux/refcount.h
index e28cce21bad6..0ac50cf62d06 100644
--- a/include/linux/refcount.h
+++ b/include/linux/refcount.h
@@ -1,9 +1,88 @@
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/*
+ * Variant of atomic_t specialized for reference counts.
+ *
+ * The interface matches the atomic_t interface (to aid in porting) but only
+ * provides the few functions one should use for reference counting.
+ *
+ * Saturation semantics
+ * ====================
+ *
+ * refcount_t differs from atomic_t in that the counter saturates at
+ * REFCOUNT_SATURATED and will not move once there. This avoids wrapping the
+ * counter and causing 'spurious' use-after-free issues. In order to avoid the
+ * cost associated with introducing cmpxchg() loops into all of the saturating
+ * operations, we temporarily allow the counter to take on an unchecked value
+ * and then explicitly set it to REFCOUNT_SATURATED on detecting that underflow
+ * or overflow has occurred. Although this is racy when multiple threads
+ * access the refcount concurrently, by placing REFCOUNT_SATURATED roughly
+ * equidistant from 0 and INT_MAX we minimise the scope for error:
+ *
+ * INT_MAX REFCOUNT_SATURATED UINT_MAX
+ * 0 (0x7fff_ffff) (0xc000_0000) (0xffff_ffff)
+ * +--------------------------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * <---------- bad value! ---------->
+ *
+ * (in a signed view of the world, the "bad value" range corresponds to
+ * a negative counter value).
+ *
+ * As an example, consider a refcount_inc() operation that causes the counter
+ * to overflow:
+ *
+ * int old = atomic_fetch_add_relaxed(r);
+ * // old is INT_MAX, refcount now INT_MIN (0x8000_0000)
+ * if (old < 0)
+ * atomic_set(r, REFCOUNT_SATURATED);
+ *
+ * If another thread also performs a refcount_inc() operation between the two
+ * atomic operations, then the count will continue to edge closer to 0. If it
+ * reaches a value of 1 before /any/ of the threads reset it to the saturated
+ * value, then a concurrent refcount_dec_and_test() may erroneously free the
+ * underlying object. Given the precise timing details involved with the
+ * round-robin scheduling of each thread manipulating the refcount and the need
+ * to hit the race multiple times in succession, there doesn't appear to be a
+ * practical avenue of attack even if using refcount_add() operations with
+ * larger increments.
+ *
+ * Memory ordering
+ * ===============
+ *
+ * Memory ordering rules are slightly relaxed wrt regular atomic_t functions
+ * and provide only what is strictly required for refcounts.
+ *
+ * The increments are fully relaxed; these will not provide ordering. The
+ * rationale is that whatever is used to obtain the object we're increasing the
+ * reference count on will provide the ordering. For locked data structures,
+ * its the lock acquire, for RCU/lockless data structures its the dependent
+ * load.
+ *
+ * Do note that inc_not_zero() provides a control dependency which will order
+ * future stores against the inc, this ensures we'll never modify the object
+ * if we did not in fact acquire a reference.
+ *
+ * The decrements will provide release order, such that all the prior loads and
+ * stores will be issued before, it also provides a control dependency, which
+ * will order us against the subsequent free().
+ *
+ * The control dependency is against the load of the cmpxchg (ll/sc) that
+ * succeeded. This means the stores aren't fully ordered, but this is fine
+ * because the 1->0 transition indicates no concurrency.
+ *
+ * Note that the allocator is responsible for ordering things between free()
+ * and alloc().
+ *
+ * The decrements dec_and_test() and sub_and_test() also provide acquire
+ * ordering on success.
+ *
+ */
+
#ifndef _LINUX_REFCOUNT_H
#define _LINUX_REFCOUNT_H
#include <linux/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/bug.h>
#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/limits.h>
#include <linux/spinlock_types.h>
struct mutex;
@@ -12,7 +91,7 @@ struct mutex;
* struct refcount_t - variant of atomic_t specialized for reference counts
* @refs: atomic_t counter field
*
- * The counter saturates at UINT_MAX and will not move once
+ * The counter saturates at REFCOUNT_SATURATED and will not move once
* there. This avoids wrapping the counter and causing 'spurious'
* use-after-free bugs.
*/
@@ -21,13 +100,25 @@ typedef struct refcount_struct {
} refcount_t;
#define REFCOUNT_INIT(n) { .refs = ATOMIC_INIT(n), }
+#define REFCOUNT_MAX INT_MAX
+#define REFCOUNT_SATURATED (INT_MIN / 2)
+
+enum refcount_saturation_type {
+ REFCOUNT_ADD_NOT_ZERO_OVF,
+ REFCOUNT_ADD_OVF,
+ REFCOUNT_ADD_UAF,
+ REFCOUNT_SUB_UAF,
+ REFCOUNT_DEC_LEAK,
+};
+
+void refcount_warn_saturate(refcount_t *r, enum refcount_saturation_type t);
/**
* refcount_set - set a refcount's value
* @r: the refcount
* @n: value to which the refcount will be set
*/
-static inline void refcount_set(refcount_t *r, unsigned int n)
+static inline void refcount_set(refcount_t *r, int n)
{
atomic_set(&r->refs, n);
}
@@ -43,70 +134,168 @@ static inline unsigned int refcount_read(const refcount_t *r)
return atomic_read(&r->refs);
}
-extern __must_check bool refcount_add_not_zero_checked(unsigned int i, refcount_t *r);
-extern void refcount_add_checked(unsigned int i, refcount_t *r);
-
-extern __must_check bool refcount_inc_not_zero_checked(refcount_t *r);
-extern void refcount_inc_checked(refcount_t *r);
-
-extern __must_check bool refcount_sub_and_test_checked(unsigned int i, refcount_t *r);
-
-extern __must_check bool refcount_dec_and_test_checked(refcount_t *r);
-extern void refcount_dec_checked(refcount_t *r);
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL
-
-#define refcount_add_not_zero refcount_add_not_zero_checked
-#define refcount_add refcount_add_checked
-
-#define refcount_inc_not_zero refcount_inc_not_zero_checked
-#define refcount_inc refcount_inc_checked
+/**
+ * refcount_add_not_zero - add a value to a refcount unless it is 0
+ * @i: the value to add to the refcount
+ * @r: the refcount
+ *
+ * Will saturate at REFCOUNT_SATURATED and WARN.
+ *
+ * Provides no memory ordering, it is assumed the caller has guaranteed the
+ * object memory to be stable (RCU, etc.). It does provide a control dependency
+ * and thereby orders future stores. See the comment on top.
+ *
+ * Use of this function is not recommended for the normal reference counting
+ * use case in which references are taken and released one at a time. In these
+ * cases, refcount_inc(), or one of its variants, should instead be used to
+ * increment a reference count.
+ *
+ * Return: false if the passed refcount is 0, true otherwise
+ */
+static inline __must_check bool refcount_add_not_zero(int i, refcount_t *r)
+{
+ int old = refcount_read(r);
-#define refcount_sub_and_test refcount_sub_and_test_checked
+ do {
+ if (!old)
+ break;
+ } while (!atomic_try_cmpxchg_relaxed(&r->refs, &old, old + i));
-#define refcount_dec_and_test refcount_dec_and_test_checked
-#define refcount_dec refcount_dec_checked
+ if (unlikely(old < 0 || old + i < 0))
+ refcount_warn_saturate(r, REFCOUNT_ADD_NOT_ZERO_OVF);
-#else
-# ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
-# include <asm/refcount.h>
-# else
-static inline __must_check bool refcount_add_not_zero(unsigned int i, refcount_t *r)
-{
- return atomic_add_unless(&r->refs, i, 0);
+ return old;
}
-static inline void refcount_add(unsigned int i, refcount_t *r)
+/**
+ * refcount_add - add a value to a refcount
+ * @i: the value to add to the refcount
+ * @r: the refcount
+ *
+ * Similar to atomic_add(), but will saturate at REFCOUNT_SATURATED and WARN.
+ *
+ * Provides no memory ordering, it is assumed the caller has guaranteed the
+ * object memory to be stable (RCU, etc.). It does provide a control dependency
+ * and thereby orders future stores. See the comment on top.
+ *
+ * Use of this function is not recommended for the normal reference counting
+ * use case in which references are taken and released one at a time. In these
+ * cases, refcount_inc(), or one of its variants, should instead be used to
+ * increment a reference count.
+ */
+static inline void refcount_add(int i, refcount_t *r)
{
- atomic_add(i, &r->refs);
+ int old = atomic_fetch_add_relaxed(i, &r->refs);
+
+ if (unlikely(!old))
+ refcount_warn_saturate(r, REFCOUNT_ADD_UAF);
+ else if (unlikely(old < 0 || old + i < 0))
+ refcount_warn_saturate(r, REFCOUNT_ADD_OVF);
}
+/**
+ * refcount_inc_not_zero - increment a refcount unless it is 0
+ * @r: the refcount to increment
+ *
+ * Similar to atomic_inc_not_zero(), but will saturate at REFCOUNT_SATURATED
+ * and WARN.
+ *
+ * Provides no memory ordering, it is assumed the caller has guaranteed the
+ * object memory to be stable (RCU, etc.). It does provide a control dependency
+ * and thereby orders future stores. See the comment on top.
+ *
+ * Return: true if the increment was successful, false otherwise
+ */
static inline __must_check bool refcount_inc_not_zero(refcount_t *r)
{
- return atomic_add_unless(&r->refs, 1, 0);
+ return refcount_add_not_zero(1, r);
}
+/**
+ * refcount_inc - increment a refcount
+ * @r: the refcount to increment
+ *
+ * Similar to atomic_inc(), but will saturate at REFCOUNT_SATURATED and WARN.
+ *
+ * Provides no memory ordering, it is assumed the caller already has a
+ * reference on the object.
+ *
+ * Will WARN if the refcount is 0, as this represents a possible use-after-free
+ * condition.
+ */
static inline void refcount_inc(refcount_t *r)
{
- atomic_inc(&r->refs);
+ refcount_add(1, r);
}
-static inline __must_check bool refcount_sub_and_test(unsigned int i, refcount_t *r)
+/**
+ * refcount_sub_and_test - subtract from a refcount and test if it is 0
+ * @i: amount to subtract from the refcount
+ * @r: the refcount
+ *
+ * Similar to atomic_dec_and_test(), but it will WARN, return false and
+ * ultimately leak on underflow and will fail to decrement when saturated
+ * at REFCOUNT_SATURATED.
+ *
+ * Provides release memory ordering, such that prior loads and stores are done
+ * before, and provides an acquire ordering on success such that free()
+ * must come after.
+ *
+ * Use of this function is not recommended for the normal reference counting
+ * use case in which references are taken and released one at a time. In these
+ * cases, refcount_dec(), or one of its variants, should instead be used to
+ * decrement a reference count.
+ *
+ * Return: true if the resulting refcount is 0, false otherwise
+ */
+static inline __must_check bool refcount_sub_and_test(int i, refcount_t *r)
{
- return atomic_sub_and_test(i, &r->refs);
+ int old = atomic_fetch_sub_release(i, &r->refs);
+
+ if (old == i) {
+ smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep();
+ return true;
+ }
+
+ if (unlikely(old < 0 || old - i < 0))
+ refcount_warn_saturate(r, REFCOUNT_SUB_UAF);
+
+ return false;
}
+/**
+ * refcount_dec_and_test - decrement a refcount and test if it is 0
+ * @r: the refcount
+ *
+ * Similar to atomic_dec_and_test(), it will WARN on underflow and fail to
+ * decrement when saturated at REFCOUNT_SATURATED.
+ *
+ * Provides release memory ordering, such that prior loads and stores are done
+ * before, and provides an acquire ordering on success such that free()
+ * must come after.
+ *
+ * Return: true if the resulting refcount is 0, false otherwise
+ */
static inline __must_check bool refcount_dec_and_test(refcount_t *r)
{
- return atomic_dec_and_test(&r->refs);
+ return refcount_sub_and_test(1, r);
}
+/**
+ * refcount_dec - decrement a refcount
+ * @r: the refcount
+ *
+ * Similar to atomic_dec(), it will WARN on underflow and fail to decrement
+ * when saturated at REFCOUNT_SATURATED.
+ *
+ * Provides release memory ordering, such that prior loads and stores are done
+ * before.
+ */
static inline void refcount_dec(refcount_t *r)
{
- atomic_dec(&r->refs);
+ if (unlikely(atomic_fetch_sub_release(1, &r->refs) <= 1))
+ refcount_warn_saturate(r, REFCOUNT_DEC_LEAK);
}
-# endif /* !CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT */
-#endif /* CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL */
extern __must_check bool refcount_dec_if_one(refcount_t *r);
extern __must_check bool refcount_dec_not_one(refcount_t *r);