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authorSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>2016-03-05 16:09:20 +0100
committerAntonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>2016-05-10 18:28:29 +0800
commitc9dad805e9f4fd3978f22c970bae49eaa00b46dd (patch)
tree6de3a8eaeeafaff0c0f44d380eb96f056bef5e53 /net/batman-adv/main.c
parentd7d6de9530db7e385a05e1ae6cde642a617e6c89 (diff)
batman-adv: Use kref_get for batadv_tvlv_container_get
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 <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/batman-adv/main.c')
-rw-r--r--net/batman-adv/main.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 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;
}