From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Reshetova, Elena" Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 06:34:53 +0000 Subject: RE: [PATCH 00/15] networking drivers refcount_t conversions Message-Id: <2236FBA76BA1254E88B949DDB74E612B802B41C4@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> List-Id: References: <1508484229-19706-1-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com> <20171022.023132.2040144937883625039.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20171022.023132.2040144937883625039.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Miller 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" , matan > 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. Thank you very much David! Will send fixups separately. Best Regards, Elena.