From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org,
x86@kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
davem@davemloft.net, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
tony.luck@intel.com, hpa@zytor.com,
Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: convert threshold_bank.cpus from atomic_t to refcount_t
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:17:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170220111727.7vohleiu2btmsx3g@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1487588781-15123-3-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com>
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 <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>
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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..
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-20 11:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-20 11:06 [PATCH 0/4] arch subsystem refcounter conversions Elena Reshetova
2017-02-20 11:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] s390: convert debug_info.ref_count from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova
2017-02-20 13:24 ` Heiko Carstens
2017-02-20 13:34 ` Heiko Carstens
2017-02-20 13:35 ` Reshetova, Elena
2017-02-20 13:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-20 11:06 ` [PATCH 2/4] x86: convert threshold_bank.cpus " Elena Reshetova
2017-02-20 11:17 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2017-02-20 12:20 ` Reshetova, Elena
2017-02-20 12:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-02-21 20:45 ` Kees Cook
2017-02-22 9:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-02-20 11:06 ` [PATCH 3/4] sparc: convert mdesc_handle.refcnt " Elena Reshetova
2017-02-20 14:56 ` David Miller
2017-04-03 7:28 ` Reshetova, Elena
2017-04-03 13:12 ` David Miller
2017-04-03 16:06 ` Reshetova, Elena
2017-04-03 16:16 ` David Miller
2017-02-20 11:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] kvm: convert kvm.users_count " Elena Reshetova
2017-02-20 11:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-02-20 12:22 ` Reshetova, Elena
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