Re: [PATCH RESEND net-next 15/15] smc: proc-fs interface for smc connections

From: Ursula Braun <redacted>
Date: Tue,  9 Aug 2016 12:13:00 +0200

+	sock_hold(&smc->sk);

 ...

+out_line:
+	seq_putc(m, '\n');
+	sock_put(&smc->sk);

You hold the smc_proc_list_lock during this function's execution,
therefore the table cannot change and therefore the socket cannot
go away.

Therefore taking a reference count here is unnecessary overhead,
please remove it.