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[10/17] batman-adv: Use kref_get for batadv_nc_get_nc_node

Message ID 1462908605-27412-11-git-send-email-a@unstable.cc (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable, archived
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Antonio Quartulli May 10, 2016, 7:29 p.m. UTC 
  From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batadv_nc_get_nc_node requires that the caller already has a valid
reference for orig_neigh_node. It is therefore not possible that it has an
reference counter of 0 and was still given to this function

The kref_get function instead WARNs (with debug information) when the
reference counter would still be 0. This makes a bug in batman-adv better
visible because kref_get_unless_zero would have ignored this problem.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
---
 net/batman-adv/network-coding.c | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/net/batman-adv/network-coding.c b/net/batman-adv/network-coding.c
index 1da8e0e1b18f..953dff1ad43b 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/network-coding.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/network-coding.c
@@ -856,8 +856,7 @@  batadv_nc_get_nc_node(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
 	if (!nc_node)
 		return NULL;
 
-	if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&orig_neigh_node->refcount))
-		goto free;
+	kref_get(&orig_neigh_node->refcount);
 
 	/* Initialize nc_node */
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&nc_node->list);
@@ -884,10 +883,6 @@  batadv_nc_get_nc_node(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
 	spin_unlock_bh(lock);
 
 	return nc_node;
-
-free:
-	kfree(nc_node);
-	return NULL;
 }
 
 /**