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/distributed-arp-table.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c b/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c index b1cc8bf..059bc23 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c @@ -343,8 +343,8 @@ static void batadv_dat_entry_add(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, __be32 ip, ether_addr_copy(dat_entry->mac_addr, mac_addr); dat_entry->last_update = jiffies; kref_init(&dat_entry->refcount); - kref_get(&dat_entry->refcount);
+ kref_get(&dat_entry->refcount); hash_added = batadv_hash_add(bat_priv->dat.hash, batadv_compare_dat, batadv_hash_dat, dat_entry, &dat_entry->hash_entry);