Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:32:52 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [ubuntu-hardened] Add overflow protection to kref |
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:48:38PM -0500, David Windsor wrote: > <snip> > > >> > >> I have yet to see a patch, so why are we arguing about this? :) > >> > >> Again, I don't know of any kref overflows that have ever happened, so > >> trying to "protect" this type of thing, seems odd to me. > > > > Well, I think the issue was to protect counting things (which seems to > > be what PaX was after originally), and that kref seemed like the place > > to put it. I'll let David take it further. > > > > Patches are forthcoming that will first introduce overflow protection > to kref. Once that's in place, I'll move a few refcount users from > atomic_t to kref as a reference for other subsystems;
I'd like to see some more users first, as I don't see how the current users could ever overflow an atomic_t, so any changes to prevent this will be kind of pointless, right?
So feel free to send all of these changes together.
thanks,
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