From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752551AbdBTL2u (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2017 06:28:50 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:40294 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751341AbdBTL2s (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2017 06:28:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:17:27 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Elena Reshetova Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, davem@davemloft.net, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, tony.luck@intel.com, hpa@zytor.com, Hans Liljestrand , Kees Cook , David Windsor Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: convert threshold_bank.cpus from atomic_t to refcount_t Message-ID: <20170220111727.7vohleiu2btmsx3g@pd.tnic> References: <1487588781-15123-1-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com> <1487588781-15123-3-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1487588781-15123-3-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 01:06:19PM +0200, Elena Reshetova wrote: > refcount_t type and corresponding API should be > used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as > a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental > refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free > situations. > > Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova > Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook > Signed-off-by: David Windsor That SOB chain tells me that you wrote the patch and Hans, Kees and David handled it in some way and the last one - David - is sending it to me. It doesn't look like that though. So what are you trying to express with it? Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst has some info on the whole SOB deal: 11) Sign your work — the Developer's Certificate of Origin ---------------------------------------------------------- .. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.