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[v2,04/18] batman-adv: Place kref_get for neigh_ifinfo near use

Message ID 1468597173-25378-4-git-send-email-sven@narfation.org (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Commit ecd3e3dbda238230600c43196b26a4e50ff426c9
Delegated to: Marek Lindner
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Commit Message

Sven Eckelmann July 15, 2016, 3:39 p.m. UTC 
  It is hard to understand why the refcnt is increased when it isn't done
near the actual place the new reference is used. So using kref_get right
before the place which requires the reference and in the same function
helps to avoid accidental problems causedy incorrect reference counting.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
---
v2:
 - split patch based on type

 net/batman-adv/originator.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Marek Lindner July 19, 2016, 8:09 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Friday, July 15, 2016 17:39:19 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> It is hard to understand why the refcnt is increased when it isn't done
> near the actual place the new reference is used. So using kref_get right
> before the place which requires the reference and in the same function
> helps to avoid accidental problems causedy incorrect reference counting.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
> ---
> v2:
>  - split patch based on type
> 
>  net/batman-adv/originator.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied in revision ecd3e3d.

Thanks,
Marek
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Patch

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/originator.c b/net/batman-adv/originator.c
index 1db577d..1de583d 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/originator.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/originator.c
@@ -454,9 +454,9 @@  batadv_neigh_ifinfo_new(struct batadv_neigh_node *neigh,
 
 	INIT_HLIST_NODE(&neigh_ifinfo->list);
 	kref_init(&neigh_ifinfo->refcount);
-	kref_get(&neigh_ifinfo->refcount);
 	neigh_ifinfo->if_outgoing = if_outgoing;
 
+	kref_get(&neigh_ifinfo->refcount);
 	hlist_add_head_rcu(&neigh_ifinfo->list, &neigh->ifinfo_list);
 
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