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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?

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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[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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