On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 02:27:25PM +0200, Elena Reshetova wrote: > I would really love finally to merge these old patches > (now rebased on top of linux-next/master as of last friday), > since as far as I remember none has raised any more concerns > on them. > > refcount_t has been now successfully used in kernel in many places, > helped to detect bugs and mistakes in logic of refcounters. > > This series, for scheduler and task struct specifically, > 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 lead to use-after-free vulnerabilities. > > The patches are fully independent and can be cherry-picked separately. > More information about each conversion in each patch separately. > > Elena Reshetova (5): > sched: convert sighand_struct.count to refcount_t > sched: convert signal_struct.sigcnt to refcount_t > sched: convert numa_group.refcount to refcount_t > sched/task_struct: convert task_struct.usage to refcount_t > sched/task_struct: convert task_struct.stack_refcount to refcount_t For the series, please feel free to add: Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (You may still want to update the references to the 'refcount-vs-atomic' doc. in the commit messages.) Andrea > > fs/exec.c | 4 ++-- > fs/proc/task_nommu.c | 2 +- > include/linux/init_task.h | 1 + > include/linux/sched.h | 5 +++-- > include/linux/sched/signal.h | 5 +++-- > include/linux/sched/task.h | 4 ++-- > include/linux/sched/task_stack.h | 2 +- > init/init_task.c | 6 +++--- > kernel/fork.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------ > kernel/sched/fair.c | 12 ++++++------ > 10 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.7.4 >
