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    netfilter: conntrack: convert to refcount_t api · 71977437
    Florian Westphal authored
    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: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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