From patchwork Mon Aug 22 13:56:08 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Simon Wunderlich X-Patchwork-Id: 16650 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@open-mesh.org Delivered-To: patchwork@open-mesh.org Received: from open-mesh.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by open-mesh.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB7582EAA; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:57:51 +0200 (CEST) Authentication-Results: open-mesh.org; dmarc=none header.from=simonwunderlich.de Received-SPF: Pass (sender SPF authorized) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=2001:4d88:2000:24::c0de; helo=mail.mail.packetmixer.de; envelope-from=sw@simonwunderlich.de; receiver=b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org Authentication-Results: open-mesh.org; dmarc=none header.from=simonwunderlich.de Received: from mail.mail.packetmixer.de (packetmixer.de [IPv6:2001:4d88:2000:24::c0de]) by open-mesh.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6DD78032B for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:56:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kero.packetmixer.de (p2003007C6F00DF00527B9DFFFECE2EDC.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [IPv6:2003:7c:6f00:df00:527b:9dff:fece:2edc]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.mail.packetmixer.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9389717400D; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:56:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Simon Wunderlich To: davem@davemloft.net Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:56:08 +0200 Message-Id: <20160822135620.15337-9-sw@simonwunderlich.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.9.3 In-Reply-To: <20160822135620.15337-1-sw@simonwunderlich.de> References: <20160822135620.15337-1-sw@simonwunderlich.de> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org, Marek Lindner Subject: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 08/20] batman-adv: Place kref_get for tt_common near use X-BeenThere: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking Errors-To: b.a.t.m.a.n-bounces@lists.open-mesh.org Sender: "B.A.T.M.A.N" From: Sven Eckelmann 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 Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich --- net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c index 094da1a..d94e298 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c @@ -1645,13 +1645,13 @@ static bool batadv_tt_global_add(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, if (flags & BATADV_TT_CLIENT_ROAM) tt_global_entry->roam_at = jiffies; kref_init(&common->refcount); - kref_get(&common->refcount); common->added_at = jiffies; INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&tt_global_entry->orig_list); atomic_set(&tt_global_entry->orig_list_count, 0); spin_lock_init(&tt_global_entry->list_lock); + kref_get(&common->refcount); hash_added = batadv_hash_add(bat_priv->tt.global_hash, batadv_compare_tt, batadv_choose_tt, common,