From: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Introduce Simple atomic and non-atomic counters
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:42:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1aeccb4f-df7e-60bf-1d70-dfcff5bb6f87@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202009260920.DC9C2743@keescook>
On 9/26/20 10:22 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 05:47:14PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> This patch series is a result of discussion at the refcount_t BOF
>> the Linux Plumbers Conference. In this discussion, we identified
>> a need for looking closely and investigating atomic_t usages in
>> the kernel when it is used strictly as a counter without it
>> controlling object lifetimes and state changes.
>
> BTW, I realized the KSPP issue tracker hadn't broken this task out of
> the refcount_t conversion issue[1] into a separate issue, so I've created
> it now: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/106
>
Cool. Thanks.
-- Shuah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-28 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-25 23:47 [PATCH 00/11] Introduce Simple atomic and non-atomic counters Shuah Khan
2020-09-25 23:47 ` [PATCH 01/11] counters: Introduce counter_simple* and counter_atomic* counters Shuah Khan
2020-09-25 23:52 ` [PATCH 00/11] Introduce Simple atomic and non-atomic counters Kees Cook
2020-09-26 0:13 ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-26 16:33 ` Kees Cook
2020-09-28 22:52 ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-26 16:22 ` Kees Cook
2020-09-28 22:42 ` Shuah Khan [this message]
2020-09-26 16:29 ` Kees Cook
2020-09-28 22:41 ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-28 23:13 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-06 15:21 ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-27 23:35 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-09-28 20:34 ` Kees Cook
2020-09-28 21:17 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-09-28 23:01 ` Shuah Khan
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