From patchwork Mon Aug 22 13:56:18 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Simon Wunderlich X-Patchwork-Id: 661461 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3sHwCJ3pqkz9t0m for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 23:58:36 +1000 (AEST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755595AbcHVN60 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2016 09:58:26 -0400 Received: from packetmixer.de ([79.140.42.25]:39005 "EHLO mail.mail.packetmixer.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755501AbcHVN57 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2016 09:57:59 -0400 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 3F137174017; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:56:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Simon Wunderlich To: davem@davemloft.net Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org, Sven Eckelmann , Marek Lindner , Simon Wunderlich Subject: [PATCH 18/20] batman-adv: Place kref_get for tvlv_handler near use Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:56:18 +0200 Message-Id: <20160822135620.15337-19-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> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org 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/tvlv.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c b/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c index 3533867..77654f0 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); } /**