From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751291AbdJWGfB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2017 02:35:01 -0400 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:50440 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751123AbdJWGe6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2017 02:34:58 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.43,421,1503385200"; d="scan'208";a="326428579" From: "Reshetova, Elena" To: David Miller CC: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-hams@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org" , "ganeshgr@chelsio.com" , "nbd@openwrt.org" , "john@phrozen.org" , "sean.wang@mediatek.com" , "matthias.bgg@gmail.com" , "yishaih@mellanox.com" , "saeedm@mellanox.com" , "matanb@mellanox.com" , "tariqt@mellanox.com" , "leonro@mellanox.com" , "ajk@comnets.uni-bremen.de" , "paulus@samba.org" , "zbr@ioremap.net" , "peterz@infradead.org" , "keescook@chromium.org" Subject: RE: [PATCH 00/15] networking drivers refcount_t conversions Thread-Topic: [PATCH 00/15] networking drivers refcount_t conversions Thread-Index: AQHTSXRtw3GJnaBcW0iJ9a8ai4Tta6LvB04AgAH3oWA= Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 06:34:53 +0000 Message-ID: <2236FBA76BA1254E88B949DDB74E612B802B41C4@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <1508484229-19706-1-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com> <20171022.023132.2040144937883625039.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20171022.023132.2040144937883625039.davem@davemloft.net> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: dlp-product: dlpe-windows dlp-version: 11.0.0.116 dlp-reaction: no-action x-ctpclassification: CTP_IC x-titus-metadata-40: eyJDYXRlZ29yeUxhYmVscyI6IiIsIk1ldGFkYXRhIjp7Im5zIjoiaHR0cDpcL1wvd3d3LnRpdHVzLmNvbVwvbnNcL0ludGVsMyIsImlkIjoiZmUzOWM4ODYtMjlkZC00ZWI3LTk5YjQtYjMyNGYxMWY5MzY3IiwicHJvcHMiOlt7Im4iOiJDVFBDbGFzc2lmaWNhdGlvbiIsInZhbHMiOlt7InZhbHVlIjoiQ1RQX0lDIn1dfV19LCJTdWJqZWN0TGFiZWxzIjpbXSwiVE1DVmVyc2lvbiI6IjE3LjIuNS4xOCIsIlRydXN0ZWRMYWJlbEhhc2giOiJsYjQydlVqaElQZ25WSWVvdCtXR3JyUnU1cXFRakdcL0FlWWN1emhPUHZ4WEdMSEJIQnIrQ01qS0h6c1lcL2NaS3QifQ== x-originating-ip: [163.33.239.180] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > From: Elena Reshetova > Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 10:23:34 +0300 > > > Note: these are the last patches related to networking that perform > > conversion of refcounters from atomic_t to refcount_t. > > In contrast to the core network refcounter conversions that > > were merged earlier, these are much more straightforward ones. > > > > This series, for various networking drivers, replaces atomic_t reference > > counters with the new refcount_t type and API (see include/linux/refcount.h). > > By doing this we prevent intentional or accidental > > underflows or overflows that can led to use-after-free vulnerabilities. > > > > The patches are fully independent and can be cherry-picked separately. > > Patches are based on top of net-next. > > If there are no objections to the patches, please merge them via respective trees > > I've applied this entire series to net-next. If there are any fixups or > follow-ups please send them as relative patches. > > Thank you. Thank you very much David! Will send fixups separately. Best Regards, Elena.