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[05/20] batman-adv: Place kref_get for neigh_node near use

Message ID 20160822135620.15337-6-sw@simonwunderlich.de (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable, archived
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Simon Wunderlich Aug. 22, 2016, 1:56 p.m. UTC 
  From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

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 caused by incorrect reference counting.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
---
 net/batman-adv/originator.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/net/batman-adv/originator.c b/net/batman-adv/originator.c
index 5e99a6e..0792de8 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/originator.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/originator.c
@@ -654,8 +654,8 @@  batadv_neigh_node_create(struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node,
 
 	/* extra reference for return */
 	kref_init(&neigh_node->refcount);
-	kref_get(&neigh_node->refcount);
 
+	kref_get(&neigh_node->refcount);
 	hlist_add_head_rcu(&neigh_node->list, &orig_node->neigh_list);
 
 	batadv_dbg(BATADV_DBG_BATMAN, orig_node->bat_priv,