[PATCH 10/11] kobject: Export kobject_get_unless_zero()

[Jan Kara]

Make the function available for outside use and fortify it against NULL
kobject.

CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanass...@sandisk.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
---
 include/linux/kobject.h | 2 ++
 lib/kobject.c           | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index e6284591599e..ca85cb80e99a 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ extern int __must_check kobject_rename(struct kobject *, 
const char *new_name);
 extern int __must_check kobject_move(struct kobject *, struct kobject *);
 
 extern struct kobject *kobject_get(struct kobject *kobj);
+extern struct kobject * __must_check kobject_get_unless_zero(
+                                               struct kobject *kobj);
 extern void kobject_put(struct kobject *kobj);
 
 extern const void *kobject_namespace(struct kobject *kobj);
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 445dcaeb0f56..763d70a18941 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -601,12 +601,15 @@ struct kobject *kobject_get(struct kobject *kobj)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_get);
 
-static struct kobject * __must_check kobject_get_unless_zero(struct kobject 
*kobj)
+struct kobject * __must_check kobject_get_unless_zero(struct kobject *kobj)
 {
+       if (!kobj)
+               return NULL;
        if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&kobj->kref))
                kobj = NULL;
        return kobj;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_get_unless_zero);
 
 /*
  * kobject_cleanup - free kobject resources.
-- 
2.10.2