From: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org
batadv_tvlv_container_get requires that tvlv.container_list_lock is held by the caller. It is therefore not possible that an item in tvlv.container_list has an reference counter of 0 and is still in the list
The kref_get function instead WARNs (with debug information) when the reference counter would still be 0. This makes a bug in batman-adv better visible because kref_get_unless_zero would have ignored this problem.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner mareklindner@neomailbox.ch Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli a@unstable.cc --- net/batman-adv/main.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/main.c b/net/batman-adv/main.c index c8d8bc78a518..5f2974bd1227 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/main.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/main.c @@ -748,9 +748,7 @@ batadv_tvlv_container_get(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, u8 type, u8 version) if (tvlv_tmp->tvlv_hdr.version != version) continue;
- if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&tvlv_tmp->refcount)) - continue; - + kref_get(&tvlv_tmp->refcount); tvlv = tvlv_tmp; break; }