The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 15d5ffdea0ddfa78609b1587851b13d9137fbbcd Author: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org Date: Fri Jul 15 17:39:23 2016 +0200

batman-adv: Place kref_get for tt_common near use

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 caused by incorrect reference counting.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner mareklindner@neomailbox.ch Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich sw@simonwunderlich.de

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c index 094da1a..d94e298 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c @@ -1645,13 +1645,13 @@ 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,