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| author | Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> | 2018-08-21 21:55:38 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2018-08-22 10:52:46 -0700 |
| commit | fc37191272a972d449bab3d8247cf52cadf5d4e6 (patch) | |
| tree | 17510f69e906aacff6c2a5c89f72ac4f17fb40f4 /scripts/patch-kernel | |
| parent | 060288a7320b2837a8ff2af1b3643bdbd5e568f6 (diff) | |
userns: use refcount_t for reference counting instead atomic_t
refcount_t type and corresponding API should be used instead of atomic_t
wh en the variable is used as a reference counter. This avoids accidental
refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free situations.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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