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| author | Reshetova, Elena | 2017-07-04 14:53:26 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller | 2017-07-04 23:35:18 +0200 |
| commit | e7f027961759f334bcc939980ec35480faa7ef17 (patch) | |
| tree | 17b4b426728e7f2e2f79a15490391aec0745f602 /include/net | |
| parent | net, sctp: convert sctp_datamsg.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t (diff) | |
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net, sctp: convert sctp_chunk.refcnt 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.
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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/sctp/structs.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h index 4d7c855d8443..0dfc5c14b696 100644 --- a/include/net/sctp/structs.h +++ b/include/net/sctp/structs.h @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ int sctp_chunk_abandoned(struct sctp_chunk *); struct sctp_chunk { struct list_head list; - atomic_t refcnt; + refcount_t refcnt; /* How many times this chunk have been sent, for prsctp RTX policy */ int sent_count; |