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secretmem: Prevent secretmem_users from wrapping to zero

Commit 110860541f44 ("mm/secretmem: use refcount_t instead of atomic_t")
attempted to fix the problem of secretmem_users wrapping to zero and
allowing suspend once again.

But it was reverted in commit 87066fdd2e30 ("Revert 'mm/secretmem: use
refcount_t instead of atomic_t'") because of the problems it caused - a
refcount_t was not semantically the right type to use.

Instead prevent secretmem_users from wrapping to zero by forbidding new
users if the number of users has wrapped from positive to negative.
This stops a long way short of reaching the necessary 4 billion users
where it wraps to zero again, so there's no need to be clever with
special anti-wrap types or checking the return value from atomic_inc().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Jordy Zomer <jordy@pwning.systems>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

authored by

Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) and committed by
Linus Torvalds
cb685432 ac8a6eba

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mm/secretmem.c
··· 203 203 204 204 if (flags & ~(SECRETMEM_FLAGS_MASK | O_CLOEXEC)) 205 205 return -EINVAL; 206 + if (atomic_read(&secretmem_users) < 0) 207 + return -ENFILE; 206 208 207 209 fd = get_unused_fd_flags(flags & O_CLOEXEC); 208 210 if (fd < 0)