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commit 719774377622bc4025d2a74f551b5dc2158c6c30 upstream. Convert nf_conn reference counting from atomic_t to refcount_t based api. refcount_t api provides more runtime sanity checks and will warn on certain constructs, e.g. refcount_inc() on a zero reference count, which usually indicates use-after-free. For this reason template allocation is changed to init the refcount to 1, the subsequenct add operations are removed. Likewise, init_conntrack() is changed to set the initial refcount to 1 instead refcount_inc(). This is safe because the new entry is not (yet) visible to other cpus. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.