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authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>2018-08-22 07:55:38 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-22 20:52:46 +0300
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parent060288a7320b2837a8ff2af1b3643bdbd5e568f6 (diff)
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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/20180703200141.28415-6-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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