[PATCH 22/29] drivers, scsi: convert iscsi_task.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t

Johannes Thumshirn jthumshirn at suse.de
Thu Mar 9 08:43:12 UTC 2017


On 03/09/2017 08:18 AM, Reshetova, Elena wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 04:21:09PM +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 at intel.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel at gmail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dwindsor at gmail.com>
>>
>> This looks OK to me.
>>
>> Acked-by: Chris Leech <cleech at redhat.com>
> 
> Thank you for review! Do you have a tree that can take this change? 

Hi Elena,

iscsi like fcoe should go via the SCSI tree.

Byte,
	Johannes

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