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SubjectRE: [PATCH 2/4] x86: convert threshold_bank.cpus from atomic_t to refcount_t
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> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 01:06:19PM +0200, Elena Reshetova wrote:
> > refcount_t type and corresponding API should be
> > used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as
> > a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental
> > refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
> > situations.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>
>
> That SOB chain tells me that you wrote the patch and Hans, Kees and
> David handled it in some way and the last one - David - is sending it to
> me. It doesn't look like that though.
>
> So what are you trying to express with it?

Whole refcount conversion was a long piece of work and the above people contributed to this code either as
writes or reviewers or both. I am primary writer of the code and I am handing patches in our tree and sending them out,
so how exactly the above should look like?

Please note that we have about 300 patches and if I have to modify each sign-off to
reflect who contributed to each commit in what particular way, I will go insane.

Best Regards,
Elena.
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