On 05/27/2017 09:41 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 3:29 AM, Elena Reshetova
<elena.reshet...@intel.com> 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.reshet...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkam...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dwind...@gmail.com>
Manfred, is this okay by you? I think this should go via -mm...
The patch is ok, the refcounters are not in the critical path.
I'll try to test the patches and then I would send an 'Acked-by', but
this will take some days.
--
Manfred
