Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 4/9] batman-adv: Use kref_get for hard_iface subfunctions

On Monday 11 April 2016 18:13:09 Marek Lindner wrote:

On Saturday, March 05, 2016 16:09:19 Sven Eckelmann wrote:

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The callers of the functions using batadv_hard_iface objects have to make sure that they already hold a valid reference. The subfunctions don't have to check whether the reference counter is > 0 because this was already checked by the callers.

You say the callers have to make sure that valid references exist but do they or is this coming later or .. ?

This was in

[PATCH 1/9] batman-adv: Check hard_iface refcnt before calling function [PATCH 2/9] batman-adv: Check hard_iface refcnt when receiving skb

Kind regards, Sven