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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] tty: serial: dz: convert atomic_* to refcount_* APIs for irq_guard
On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 09:37:43AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 01:47:12PM +0530, Deepak R Varma wrote:
> > The refcount_* APIs are designed to address known issues with the
> > atomic_t APIs for reference counting. They provide following distinct
> > advantages:
> > - protect the reference counters from overflow/underflow
> > - avoid use-after-free errors
> > - provide improved memory ordering guarantee schemes
> > - neater and safer.
> > Hence, replace the atomic_* APIs by their equivalent refcount_t
> > API functions.
> >
> > This patch proposal address the following warnings generated by
> > the atomic_as_refcounter.cocci coccinelle script
> > atomic_add_return(-1, ...)
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Deepak R Varma <drv@mailo.com>
> > ---
>
> This depends on the previous patch you sent, so why wasn't this a patch
> series? Always send patches as a series, otherwise I would have
> attempted to apply this one first and it would have failed. You will
> recieve 0-day reports about that happening over the next few days as our
> testing infrastructure will also be confused.

My apologies. I will send in the patches in a series and highlight the
dependency as well. Sorry.

./drv

>
> Please fix and resend all changes you wish to have done to this driver
> together.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h


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