merged into master, 2.9, 2.8, thanks!

Mathieu

----- On Mar 8, 2017, at 11:50 AM, Francis Deslauriers 
francis.deslauri...@efficios.com wrote:

> The previous implementation assumed that `atomic_add_unless` returned
> the prior value of the atomic counter when in fact it returned if the
> addition was performed (true) or not performed (false).
> Since `atomic_add_unless` can not return INT_MAX, the `lttng_kref_get`
> always returned that the call was successful.
> 
> This issue had a low likelihood of being triggered since the two refcounts
> of the counters used with this call are both bounded by the maximum
> number of file descriptors on the system.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Francis Deslauriers <francis.deslauri...@efficios.com>
> ---
> wrapper/kref.h | 6 +-----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/wrapper/kref.h b/wrapper/kref.h
> index eedefbf..f30a9ae 100644
> --- a/wrapper/kref.h
> +++ b/wrapper/kref.h
> @@ -36,11 +36,7 @@
>  */
> static inline int lttng_kref_get(struct kref *kref)
> {
> -     if (atomic_add_unless(&kref->refcount, 1, INT_MAX) != INT_MAX) {
> -             return 1;
> -     } else {
> -             return 0;
> -     }
> +     return atomic_add_unless(&kref->refcount, 1, INT_MAX);
> }
> 
> #endif /* _LTTNG_WRAPPER_KREF_H */
> --
> 2.7.4

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
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