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| author | Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> | 2017-09-08 16:17:38 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-09-08 18:26:51 -0700 |
| commit | a2e0602c36ed9fe042714694dd5a889ecd8cb556 (patch) | |
| tree | ce02930bac1f418d0920726c061ebeee5ca0ec53 /include | |
| parent | 7483e5d420d9d5aa1732c5efb0da59e095a8b24e (diff) | |
ipc: convert ipc_namespace.count from atomic_t to refcount_t
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.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499417992-3238-2-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com
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>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: <arozansk@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/ipc_namespace.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h index 65327ee0936b..e81445cc7c57 100644 --- a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h +++ b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ #include <linux/notifier.h> #include <linux/nsproxy.h> #include <linux/ns_common.h> +#include <linux/refcount.h> struct user_namespace; @@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ struct ipc_ids { }; struct ipc_namespace { - atomic_t count; + refcount_t count; struct ipc_ids ids[3]; int sem_ctls[4]; @@ -118,7 +119,7 @@ extern struct ipc_namespace *copy_ipcs(unsigned long flags, static inline struct ipc_namespace *get_ipc_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { if (ns) - atomic_inc(&ns->count); + refcount_inc(&ns->count); return ns; } |