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[PATCH 09/17] batman-adv: Use kref_get for batadv_tvlv_container_get

From: Antonio Quartulli <hidden>
Date: 2016-05-10 19:31:14
Also in: batman
Subsystem: batman advanced, the rest · Maintainers: Marek Lindner, Simon Wunderlich, Antonio Quartulli, Sven Eckelmann, Linus Torvalds

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 <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <redacted>
---
 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;
 	}
-- 
2.8.2
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