From 7b9364050246bd4c24b36b71c8990b2922dcc027 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 15:53:07 +0300
Subject: net, sched: convert Qdisc.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t

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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 include/net/sch_generic.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'include')

diff --git a/include/net/sch_generic.h b/include/net/sch_generic.h
index 368850194c94..1c123e2b2415 100644
--- a/include/net/sch_generic.h
+++ b/include/net/sch_generic.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
 #include <linux/dynamic_queue_limits.h>
 #include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/refcount.h>
 #include <net/gen_stats.h>
 #include <net/rtnetlink.h>
 
@@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ struct Qdisc {
 	struct sk_buff		*skb_bad_txq;
 	struct rcu_head		rcu_head;
 	int			padded;
-	atomic_t		refcnt;
+	refcount_t		refcnt;
 
 	spinlock_t		busylock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
 };
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