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Re: [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?

Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst has some info on the whole
SOB deal:

11) Sign your work — the Developer's Certificate of Origin
----------------------------------------------------------
..


-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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[PATCH 0/4] arch subsystem refcounter conversions Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-02-20 12:10 +0100
  [PATCH 3/4] sparc: convert mdesc_handle.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-02-20 12:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/4] sparc: convert mdesc_handle.refcnt from atomic_t  to refcount_t David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-02-20 16:00 +0100
  [PATCH 1/4] s390: convert debug_info.ref_count from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-02-20 12:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] s390: convert debug_info.ref_count from atomic_t to  refcount_t Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> - 2017-02-20 14:30 +0100
      RE: [PATCH 1/4] s390: convert debug_info.ref_count from atomic_t to  refcount_t "Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-02-20 14:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] s390: convert debug_info.ref_count from atomic_t to  refcount_t Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> - 2017-02-20 14:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] s390: convert debug_info.ref_count from atomic_t to  refcount_t Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-20 14:40 +0100
  [PATCH 4/4] kvm: convert kvm.users_count from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-02-20 12:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/4] kvm: convert kvm.users_count from atomic_t to  refcount_t Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-02-20 12:40 +0100
      RE: [PATCH 4/4] kvm: convert kvm.users_count from atomic_t to  refcount_t "Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-02-20 13:30 +0100
  [PATCH 2/4] x86: convert threshold_bank.cpus from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-02-20 12:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: convert threshold_bank.cpus from atomic_t to  refcount_t Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-02-20 12:30 +0100
      RE: [PATCH 2/4] x86: convert threshold_bank.cpus from atomic_t to  refcount_t "Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com> - 2017-02-20 13:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: convert threshold_bank.cpus from atomic_t to  refcount_t Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-02-20 13:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: convert threshold_bank.cpus from atomic_t to refcount_t Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-02-21 21:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: convert threshold_bank.cpus from atomic_t to  refcount_t Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-02-22 10:40 +0100

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