From 66af846fe54b780f8f5bd9a62aee081bd2ace582 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 15:52:59 +0300
Subject: net, vxlan: convert vxlan_sock.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>
---
 include/net/vxlan.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'include/net/vxlan.h')

diff --git a/include/net/vxlan.h b/include/net/vxlan.h
index 326e8498b10e..3f430e38ab82 100644
--- a/include/net/vxlan.h
+++ b/include/net/vxlan.h
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ struct vxlan_sock {
 	struct hlist_node hlist;
 	struct socket	 *sock;
 	struct hlist_head vni_list[VNI_HASH_SIZE];
-	atomic_t	  refcnt;
+	refcount_t	  refcnt;
 	u32		  flags;
 };
 
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