Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:39:08 +0100 | From | Djalal Harouni <> | Subject | Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: Add overflow protection to kref |
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:37:19PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote: > pattern, otherwise it is not a true refcounter :) It should be straightforward to > move to kref. > > > Moving to atomic64_t is attractive, but: > > 1) we still should find all atomic_t refcounters. Why not move to kref then? > > 2) what to do with architectures-loosers? There is lib/atomic64.c but with a static hashed array of raw_spinlocks.
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