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 <[email protected]> --- 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 bda5f13..1245a58 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/main.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/main.c @@ -748,9 +748,7 @@ static struct batadv_tvlv_container 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; } -- 2.7.0
