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authorReshetova, Elena <elena.reshetova@intel.com>2017-07-04 15:53:26 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-07-04 22:35:18 +0100
commite7f027961759f334bcc939980ec35480faa7ef17 (patch)
tree17b4b426728e7f2e2f79a15490391aec0745f602 /include
parentc0acdfb409c82047853df1e5f3dbdbe4005c78ae (diff)
downloadlinux-e7f027961759f334bcc939980ec35480faa7ef17.tar.bz2
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')
-rw-r--r--include/net/sctp/structs.h2
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;