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Pedro Tammela
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The 'filter_cnt' counter is used to control a Qdisc class lifetime. Each filter referecing this class by its id will eventually increment/decrement this counter in their respective 'add/update/delete' routines. As these operations are always serialized under rtnl lock, we don't need an atomic type like 'refcount_t'. It also means that we lose the overflow/underflow checks already present in refcount_t, which are valuable to hunt down bugs where the unsigned counter wraps around as it aids automated tools like syzkaller to scream in such situations. Wrap the open coded increment/decrement into helper functions and add overflow checks to the operations. Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Signed-off-by: Pedro Tammela <pctammela@mojatatu.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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