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 causedy incorrect reference counting.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org --- v2: - split patch based on type
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 d21b65c..a9d2283 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c @@ -1480,13 +1480,13 @@ 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,