netdev - Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to refcount

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:36:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     keescook@...omium.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, elena.reshetova@...el.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
        jmorris@...ei.org, kaber@...sh.net, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        ishkamiel@...il.com, dwindsor@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to
 refcount_t

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:23:09 -0700

> It looks like our suggestion to get kernel builds with atomic_inc()
> being exactly an atomic_inc() is not even discussed or implemented.
> 
> Coding this would require less time than running a typical Google kernel
> qualification (roughly one month, thousands of hosts..., days of SWE).

+1