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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:39:08 +0100 From: Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org> To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com> Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Ubuntu security discussion <ubuntu-hardened@...ts.ubuntu.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Windsor <dwindsor@...il.com>, pageexec@...email.hu, spender@...ecurity.net Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: Add overflow protection to kref 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. > > Thanks, > > -- > Vasiliy Kulikov > http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- tixxdz http://opendz.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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