From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 01:31:32 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] networking drivers refcount_t conversions Message-Id: <20171022.023132.2040144937883625039.davem@davemloft.net> List-Id: References: <1508484229-19706-1-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1508484229-19706-1-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: elena.reshetova@intel.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-hams@vger.kernel.org, linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, ganeshgr@chelsio.com, nbd@openwrt.org, john@phrozen.org, sean.wang@mediatek.com, matthias.bgg@gmail.com, yishaih@mellanox.com, saeedm@mellanox.com, matanb@mellanox.com, tariqt@mellanox.com, leonro@mellanox.com, ajk@comnets.uni-bremen.de, paulus@samba.org, zbr@ioremap.net, peterz@infradead.org, keescook@chromium.org From: Elena Reshetova Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 10:23:34 +0300 > Note: these are the last patches related to networking that perform > conversion of refcounters from atomic_t to refcount_t. > In contrast to the core network refcounter conversions that > were merged earlier, these are much more straightforward ones. > > This series, for various networking drivers, replaces atomic_t reference > counters with the new refcount_t type and API (see include/linux/refcount.h). > By doing this we prevent intentional or accidental > underflows or overflows that can led to use-after-free vulnerabilities. > > The patches are fully independent and can be cherry-picked separately. > Patches are based on top of net-next. > If there are no objections to the patches, please merge them via respective trees I've applied this entire series to net-next. If there are any fixups or follow-ups please send them as relative patches. Thank you.