[PATCH 15/17] pid: rely on common reference count behavior
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-11-10 15:09:59
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namespaces:, the rest · Maintainers:
Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds
Now that we changed the generic reference counting mechanism for all namespaces to never manipulate reference counts of initial namespaces we can drop the special handling for pid namespaces. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> --- include/linux/pid_namespace.h | 3 +-- kernel/pid_namespace.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
index 445517a72ad0..0e7ae12c96d2 100644
--- a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h@@ -61,8 +61,7 @@ static inline struct pid_namespace *to_pid_ns(struct ns_common *ns) static inline struct pid_namespace *get_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns) { - if (ns != &init_pid_ns) - ns_ref_inc(ns); + ns_ref_inc(ns); return ns; }
diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
index 650be58d8d18..e48f5de41361 100644
--- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(u64 flags, void put_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns) { - if (ns && ns != &init_pid_ns && ns_ref_put(ns)) + if (ns && ns_ref_put(ns)) schedule_work(&ns->work); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(put_pid_ns);
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