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authorElena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>2017-02-21 18:35:02 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2017-03-04 01:07:16 +0300
commite34f5b11cd51fbe723e481c1db03a77260be6f4c (patch)
tree7ff4889208d4221312fd12a756603ed6bd9d35d3 /tools/perf/util/thread.h
parent25a3720cf45779900246ec17e238fbb674ce4e67 (diff)
downloadlinux-e34f5b11cd51fbe723e481c1db03a77260be6f4c.tar.xz
perf thread: convert thread.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
The 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: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Kook <keescook@chromium.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Kook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matija Glavinic Pecotic <matija.glavinic-pecotic.ext@nokia.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487691303-31858-9-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com [ Did missing conversion in __machine__remove_thread() ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/thread.h')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/thread.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/thread.h b/tools/perf/util/thread.h
index 99263cb6e6b6..e57188546465 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/thread.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/thread.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#ifndef __PERF_THREAD_H
#define __PERF_THREAD_H
-#include <linux/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/refcount.h>
#include <linux/rbtree.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <unistd.h>
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ struct thread {
pid_t tid;
pid_t ppid;
int cpu;
- atomic_t refcnt;
+ refcount_t refcnt;
char shortname[3];
bool comm_set;
int comm_len;