> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:10:08AM +0800, Xiaoming Ni wrote:
> > On 2020/6/13 2:34, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > This series was never applied[1], and was recently pointed out as
> > > missing[2]. If someone has a tree for this, please take it. Otherwise,
> > > please Ack and I'll send it to Linus.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > -Kees
> > >
> > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190306110549.7628-1-
> [email protected]/
> > > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1591957695-118312-1-git-send-email-
> [email protected]/
> > >
> > > Elena Reshetova (3):
> > >    nsproxy: convert nsproxy.count to refcount_t
> > >    groups: convert group_info.usage to refcount_t
> > >    creds: convert cred.usage to refcount_t
> > >
> > >   include/linux/cred.h    | 15 +++++++-------
> > >   include/linux/nsproxy.h |  7 +++----
> > >   kernel/cred.c           | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> > >   kernel/groups.c         |  2 +-
> > >   kernel/nsproxy.c        |  6 +++---
> > >   net/sunrpc/auth.c       |  2 +-
> > >   6 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
> > >
> >
> > Should mm->mm_users also be replaced by refcount_t?
> 
> I'll say "yes". :)
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1487671124-11188-1-git-send-email-
> [email protected]/
> 
> > In addition, is it better to change all variables that use
> > atomic_dec_and_test to control the release process to refconut_t?
> 
> For the most part, yes. The following may find a lot of them:
> scripts/coccinelle/api/atomic_as_refcounter.cocci
> 
> If you can go through that and double check for prior series from Elena,
> we can get through all the rest of them.

I have these ones also here in case anyone is interested:
https://github.com/ereshetova/linux-stable/commits/refcount_t_fs
https://github.com/ereshetova/linux-stable/commits/refcount_t_block

They haven't been rebased for a while, but if there is an interest, 
I can certainly do it.

Best Regards,
Elena.

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