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| author | Reshetova, Elena <elena.reshetova@intel.com> | 2017-06-30 13:08:05 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-07-01 07:39:08 -0700 |
| commit | 8c9814b97002f61846ebf3048e8df5aae52f7828 (patch) | |
| tree | cc555b6c6c8542b6ef5ffe213ecb76f55c62630c /include/net | |
| parent | 433cea4d9bbb83cc848b80c51bb849a2ceb49379 (diff) | |
net: convert unix_address.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/af_unix.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/af_unix.h b/include/net/af_unix.h index fd60eccb59a6..3a385e4767f0 100644 --- a/include/net/af_unix.h +++ b/include/net/af_unix.h @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ #include <linux/socket.h> #include <linux/un.h> #include <linux/mutex.h> +#include <linux/refcount.h> #include <net/sock.h> void unix_inflight(struct user_struct *user, struct file *fp); @@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ extern spinlock_t unix_table_lock; extern struct hlist_head unix_socket_table[2 * UNIX_HASH_SIZE]; struct unix_address { - atomic_t refcnt; + refcount_t refcnt; int len; unsigned int hash; struct sockaddr_un name[0]; |