batman-adv: Use kref_get for batadv_gw_select
authorSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Sat, 5 Mar 2016 15:09:22 +0000 (16:09 +0100)
committerAntonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Tue, 10 May 2016 10:28:29 +0000 (18:28 +0800)
batadv_gw_select requires that the caller already has a valid reference for
new_gw_node. It is therefore not possible that it has an reference counter
of 0 and was still given to this function

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>
net/batman-adv/gateway_client.c

index c59aff5ccac8a63f191a669eafcfdba7a270fd75..bb1c4f37716ee867918b24784fae580c8ec0d0f8 100644 (file)
@@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ static void batadv_gw_select(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
 
        spin_lock_bh(&bat_priv->gw.list_lock);
 
-       if (new_gw_node && !kref_get_unless_zero(&new_gw_node->refcount))
-               new_gw_node = NULL;
+       if (new_gw_node)
+               kref_get(&new_gw_node->refcount);
 
        curr_gw_node = rcu_dereference_protected(bat_priv->gw.curr_gw, 1);
        rcu_assign_pointer(bat_priv->gw.curr_gw, new_gw_node);