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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2017-03-23 01:37:01 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-01-14 20:04:25 +0100
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kobject: Export kobject_get_unless_zero()
commit c70c176ff8c3ff0ac6ef9a831cd591ea9a66bd1a upstream. Make the function available for outside use and fortify it against NULL kobject. CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/kobject.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index f58c7f2b229c..bbbb067de8ec 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -599,12 +599,15 @@ struct kobject *kobject_get(struct kobject *kobj)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_get);
-static struct kobject * __must_check kobject_get_unless_zero(struct kobject *kobj)
+struct kobject * __must_check kobject_get_unless_zero(struct kobject *kobj)
{
+ if (!kobj)
+ return NULL;
if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&kobj->kref))
kobj = NULL;
return kobj;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_get_unless_zero);
/*
* kobject_cleanup - free kobject resources.