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authorSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>2016-07-15 17:39:32 +0200
committerSimon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>2016-08-09 07:54:52 +0200
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batman-adv: Place kref_get for tvlv_container 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/batman-adv')
-rw-r--r--net/batman-adv/tvlv.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c b/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
index 3d1cf0fb112d..353386780e6d 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/tvlv.c
@@ -257,8 +257,13 @@ void batadv_tvlv_container_register(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
spin_lock_bh(&bat_priv->tvlv.container_list_lock);
tvlv_old = batadv_tvlv_container_get(bat_priv, type, version);
batadv_tvlv_container_remove(bat_priv, tvlv_old);
+
+ kref_get(&tvlv_new->refcount);
hlist_add_head(&tvlv_new->list, &bat_priv->tvlv.container_list);
spin_unlock_bh(&bat_priv->tvlv.container_list_lock);
+
+ /* don't return reference to new tvlv_container */
+ batadv_tvlv_container_put(tvlv_new);
}
/**