28 Sep
2020
28 Sep
'20
10:42 p.m.
On 9/26/20 10:22 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 05:47:14PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
This patch series is a result of discussion at the refcount_t BOF the Linux Plumbers Conference. In this discussion, we identified a need for looking closely and investigating atomic_t usages in the kernel when it is used strictly as a counter without it controlling object lifetimes and state changes.
BTW, I realized the KSPP issue tracker hadn't broken this task out of the refcount_t conversion issue[1] into a separate issue, so I've created it now: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/106
Cool. Thanks.
-- Shuah