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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: convert css_set.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 17:47:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170308224719.GA21117@htj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1488960040-24741-1-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com>

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:00:40AM +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 <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>

Applied to cgroup/for-4.12.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

      reply	other threads:[~2017-03-08 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-08  8:00 Elena Reshetova
2017-03-08 22:47 ` Tejun Heo [this message]

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