Re: [syzbot] WARNING: refcount bug in sys_memfd_secret

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Sun Oct 24 2021 - 01:52:29 EST


On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 11:46:18PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 10:03:11AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On October 23, 2021 8:27:28 AM PDT, Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >and my first reaction was to send a revert the untested commit 110860541f44
> > >("mm/secretmem: use refcount_t instead of atomic_t").
>
> I think you should. This isn't a real problem.

Do you mean that creation of 4 billion of file descriptors is not feasible?

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Sincerely yours,
Mike.