locking/refcount: Remove the half-implemented refcount_sub() API

CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y (correctly) does not provide a refcount_sub(),
which should not be part of proper refcount design patterns.

Remove the erroneous extern and the later !CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL
accidental implementation.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 29dee3c03abc ("locking/refcounts: Out-of-line everything")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170701180129.GA17405@beast
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/refcount.h b/include/linux/refcount.h
index bb71f2871dac..591792c8e5b0 100644
--- a/include/linux/refcount.h
+++ b/include/linux/refcount.h
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ extern __must_check bool refcount_inc_not_zero(refcount_t *r);
 extern void refcount_inc(refcount_t *r);
 
 extern __must_check bool refcount_sub_and_test(unsigned int i, refcount_t *r);
-extern void refcount_sub(unsigned int i, refcount_t *r);
 
 extern __must_check bool refcount_dec_and_test(refcount_t *r);
 extern void refcount_dec(refcount_t *r);
@@ -79,11 +78,6 @@ static inline __must_check bool refcount_sub_and_test(unsigned int i, refcount_t
         return atomic_sub_and_test(i, &r->refs);
 }
 
-static inline void refcount_sub(unsigned int i, refcount_t *r)
-{
-        atomic_sub(i, &r->refs);
-}
-
 static inline __must_check bool refcount_dec_and_test(refcount_t *r)
 {
         return atomic_dec_and_test(&r->refs);