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 <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: David Windsor <[email protected]>
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
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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