Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 18:35:04 +0000
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jinbum Park <jinb.park7@gmail.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
        kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] arm: Always use REFCOUNT_FULL
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 10:32:46AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 4:28 AM, Jinbum Park <jinb.park7@gmail.com> wrote:
> > arm prefers to use REFCOUNT_FULL by default.
> > This enables it for arm.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jinbum Park <jinb.park7@gmail.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

I'd help if there was some kind of explanation about this.  Not
everyone knows what REFCOUNT_FULL is.

Also, why does "arm" "prefer" to use this?  Where does the preference
come from - and why is it a preference but being enforced by the
Kconfig ?

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