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 af2bfef..89d7b1d 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c @@ -1402,9 +1402,9 @@ batadv_tt_global_orig_entry_add(struct batadv_tt_global_entry *tt_global, orig_entry->orig_node = orig_node; orig_entry->ttvn = ttvn; kref_init(&orig_entry->refcount); - kref_get(&orig_entry->refcount);
spin_lock_bh(&tt_global->list_lock); + kref_get(&orig_entry->refcount); hlist_add_head_rcu(&orig_entry->list, &tt_global->orig_list); spin_unlock_bh(&tt_global->list_lock);