Re: [RESEND][PATCH 2/3] dma-buf: heaps: Add a WARN_ON should the vmap_cnt go negative

[John Stultz]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 2:21 PM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:56 PM Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 at 02:15, John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > We shouldn't vunmap more then we vmap, but if we do, make
> > > sure we complain loudly.
> >
> > I was checking the general usage of vunmap in the kernel, and I
> > couldn't find many instances where we need to WARN_ON for the vunmap
> > count more than vmap count. Is there a specific need for this in the heaps?
>
> Hi Sumit,
> My worry was that buffer->vmap_cnt could silently go negative. But if
> this warning is not consistent with other places we do refcounted
> vmap/vunmap then feel free to ignore my suggestion.
>

Yea,
 My sense is that it didn't seem like it would hurt, and if the
warning happened to be tripped, it would be good to catch.

However, if you are skeptical, feel free to drop that patch from this
series for now (it shouldn't impact the following patches).

thanks
-john