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authorSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>2016-07-15 17:39:33 +0200
committerSimon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>2016-08-09 07:54:53 +0200
commit27d684ec5bc7caf8a72a7a0383fa3e1631ee2b25 (patch)
treef06c4c9e9dc62a0b27e5739cd956cbb65bcaf78c /net
parentbatman-adv: Place kref_get for tvlv_container near use (diff)
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batman-adv: Place kref_get for tvlv_handler near use
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/batman-adv/tvlv.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c b/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
index 353386780e6d..77654f055f24 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
@@ -547,8 +547,12 @@ void batadv_tvlv_handler_register(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
INIT_HLIST_NODE(&tvlv_handler->list);
spin_lock_bh(&bat_priv->tvlv.handler_list_lock);
+ kref_get(&tvlv_handler->refcount);
hlist_add_head_rcu(&tvlv_handler->list, &bat_priv->tvlv.handler_list);
spin_unlock_bh(&bat_priv->tvlv.handler_list_lock);
+
+ /* don't return reference to new tvlv_handler */
+ batadv_tvlv_handler_put(tvlv_handler);
}
/**