Depending on which method the driver implements, userspace could
call this (indirectly, by getting station info) before the driver
knows about the station, possibly causing it to misbehave.
Therefore, add a check for sta->uploaded which indicates that the
driver knows about the station.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Altshul <maxim.altshul@ti.com>
[reword commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Beacon interval interface combinations validation was missing
for MESH/IBSS join, add those.
Johannes: also move the beacon interval check disallowing really
tiny and really big intervals into the common function, which
adds it for AP mode.
Signed-off-by: Purushottam Kushwaha <pkushwah@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This change alters the semantics of NL80211_CMD_DEL_INTERFACE events
by always sending this event whenever a net_device object associated
with a wdev is destroyed. Prior to this change, this event was only
emitted as a result of NL80211_CMD_DEL_INTERFACE command sent from
userspace. This allows userspace to reliably detect when wireless
interfaces have been removed, e.g. due to USB removal events, etc.
For wireless device objects without an associated net_device (e.g.
NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE), the NL80211_CMD_DEL_INTERFACE event is
now generated inside cfg80211_unregister_wdev.
Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This change alters the semantics of NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE events
by always sending this event whenever a new net_device object
associated with a wdev is registered. Prior to this change, this event
was only sent as a result of NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE command sent
from userspace. This allows userspace to reliably detect new wireless
interfaces (e.g. due to hardware hot-plug events, etc).
For wdevs created without an associated net_device object (e.g.
NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE), the NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE event is
still generated inside the relevant nl80211 command handler.
Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Since the code only touches the MAC headers, the offsets to the
network/transport headers remain the same throughout this function.
Remove pointless pieces of code that try to 'preserve' them.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Mesh HWMP module will be able to rely on the HW
RC algorithm if it exists, for path metric calculations.
This allows the metric calculation mechanism to calculate
a correct metric, based on PER and last TX rate both via
HW RC algorithm if it exists or via parameters collected
by the SW.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Altshul <maxim.altshul@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Running LTP 'icmp-uni-basic.sh -6 -p ipcomp -m tunnel' test over
openvswitch + veth can trigger kernel panic:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
at 00000000000000e0 IP: [<ffffffff8169d1d2>] xfrm_input+0x82/0x750
...
[<ffffffff816d472e>] xfrm6_rcv_spi+0x1e/0x20
[<ffffffffa082c3c2>] xfrm6_tunnel_rcv+0x42/0x50 [xfrm6_tunnel]
[<ffffffffa082727e>] tunnel6_rcv+0x3e/0x8c [tunnel6]
[<ffffffff8169f365>] ip6_input_finish+0xd5/0x430
[<ffffffff8169fc53>] ip6_input+0x33/0x90
[<ffffffff8169f1d5>] ip6_rcv_finish+0xa5/0xb0
...
It seems that tunnel.ip6 can have garbage values and also dereferenced
without a proper check, only tunnel.ip4 is being verified. Fix it by
adding one more if block for AF_INET6 and initialize tunnel.ip6 with NULL
inside xfrm6_rcv_spi() (which is similar to xfrm4_rcv_spi()).
Fixes: 049f8e2 ("xfrm: Override skb->mark with tunnel->parm.i_key in xfrm_input")
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
The creation of a tunnel vport (geneve, gre, vxlan) brings up a
corresponding netdev, a multi-step operation which can fail.
For example, changing a vxlan vport's netdev state to 'up' binds the
vport's socket to a UDP port - if the binding fails (e.g. due to the
port being in use), the error is currently ignored giving the
appearance that the tunnel vport creation completed successfully.
Signed-off-by: Martynas Pumputis <martynas@weave.works>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In commit cf6f7e1d51 ("tipc: dump monitor attributes"),
I dereferenced a pointer before checking if its valid.
This is reported by static check Smatch as:
net/tipc/monitor.c:733 tipc_nl_add_monitor_peer()
warn: variable dereferenced before check 'mon' (see line 731)
In this commit, we check for a valid monitor before proceeding
with any other operation.
Fixes: cf6f7e1d51 ("tipc: dump monitor attributes")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The PPTP is encapsulated by GRE header with that GRE_VERSION bits
must contain one. But current GRE RPS needs the GRE_VERSION must be
zero. So RPS does not work for PPTP traffic.
In my test environment, there are four MIPS cores, and all traffic
are passed through by PPTP. As a result, only one core is 100% busy
while other three cores are very idle. After this patch, the usage
of four cores are balanced well.
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <fgao@ikuai8.com>
Reviewed-by: Philip Prindeville <philipp@redfish-solutions.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Convert the per-device linked list into a hashtable. The primary
motivation for this change is that currently, we're not tracking all the
qdiscs in hierarchy (e.g. excluding default qdiscs), as the lookup
performed over the linked list by qdisc_match_from_root() is rather
expensive.
The ultimate goal is to get rid of hidden qdiscs completely, which will
bring much more determinism in user experience.
Reviewed-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is a preparatory patch for converting qdisc linked list into a
hashtable. As we'll need to include hashtable.h in netdevice.h, we first
have to make sure that this will not introduce symbol conflicts for any of
the netdevice.h users.
Reviewed-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pablo Neira Ayuso says:
====================
Netfilter fixes for net
The following patchset contains Netfilter fixes for your net tree,
they are:
1) Use mod_timer_pending() to avoid reactivating a dead expectation in
the h323 conntrack helper, from Liping Zhang.
2) Oneliner to fix a type in the register name defined in the nf_tables
header.
3) Don't try to look further when we find an inactive elements with no
descendants in the rbtree set implementation, otherwise we crash.
4) Handle valid zero CSeq in the SIP conntrack helper, from
Christophe Leroy.
5) Don't display a trailing slash in conntrack helper with no classes
via /proc/net/nf_conntrack_expect, from Liping Zhang.
6) Fix an expectation leak during creation from the nfqueue path, again
from Liping Zhang.
7) Validate netlink port ID in verdict message from nfqueue, otherwise
an injection can be possible. Again from Zhang.
8) Reject conntrack tuples with different transport protocol on
original and reply tuples, also from Zhang.
9) Validate offset and length in nft_exthdr, make sure they are under
sizeof(u8), from Laura Garcia Liebana.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ic_close_devs() calls kfree() for all devices's ic_device. Since commit
2647cffb2b ("net: ipconfig: Support using "delayed" DHCP replies")
the active device's ic_device is still used however to print the
ipconfig summary which results in an oops if the memory is already
changed. So delay freeing until after the autoconfig results are
reported.
Fixes: 2647cffb2b ("net: ipconfig: Support using "delayed" DHCP replies")
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix the direct assignment of offset and length attributes included in
nft_exthdr structure from u32 data to u8.
Signed-off-by: Laura Garcia Liebana <nevola@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
push the lock down, after earlier patches we can rely on rcu to
make sure state struct won't go away.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Before xfrm_state_find() can use rcu_read_lock instead of xfrm_state_lock
we need to switch users of the hash table to assign/obtain the pointers
with the appropriate rcu helpers.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Once xfrm_state_find is lockless we have to cope with a concurrent
resize opertion.
We use a sequence counter to block in case a resize is in progress
and to detect if we might have missed a state that got moved to
a new hash table.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
The hash table backend memory and the state structs are free'd via
kfree/vfree.
Once we only rely on rcu during lookups we have to make sure no other cpu
is currently accessing this before doing the free.
Free operations already happen from worker so we can use synchronize_rcu
to wait until concurrent readers are done.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Once xfrm_state_lookup_byaddr no longer acquires the state lock another
cpu might be freeing the state entry at the same time.
To detect this we use atomic_inc_not_zero, we then signal -EAGAIN to
caller in case our result was stale.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
This is required once we allow lockless access of bydst/bysrc hash tables.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
The xfrm_replay structures are never modified, so declare them as const.
Done with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Adding fdb entries pointing to the bridge device uses fdb_insert(),
which lacks various checks and does not respect added_by_user flag.
As a result, some inconsistent behavior can happen:
* Adding temporary entries succeeds but results in permanent entries.
* Same goes for "dynamic" and "use".
* Changing mac address of the bridge device causes deletion of
user-added entries.
* Replacing existing entries looks successful from userspace but actually
not, regardless of NLM_F_EXCL flag.
Use the same logic as other entries and fix them.
Fixes: 3741873b4f ("bridge: allow adding of fdb entries pointing to the bridge device")
Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
After commit 0ddcf43d5d ("ipv4: FIB Local/MAIN table collapse")
fib_local is set but not used. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When executing the script included below, the netns delete operation
hangs with the following message (repeated at 10 second intervals):
kernel:unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 1
This occurs because a reference to the lo interface in the "secure" netns
is still held by a dst entry in the xfrm bundle cache in the init netns.
Address this problem by garbage collecting the tunnel netns flow cache
when a cross-namespace vti interface receives a NETDEV_DOWN notification.
A more detailed description of the problem scenario (referencing commands
in the script below):
(1) ip link add vti_test type vti local 1.1.1.1 remote 1.1.1.2 key 1
The vti_test interface is created in the init namespace. vti_tunnel_init()
attaches a struct ip_tunnel to the vti interface's netdev_priv(dev),
setting the tunnel net to &init_net.
(2) ip link set vti_test netns secure
The vti_test interface is moved to the "secure" netns. Note that
the associated struct ip_tunnel still has tunnel->net set to &init_net.
(3) ip netns exec secure ping -c 4 -i 0.02 -I 192.168.100.1 192.168.200.1
The first packet sent using the vti device causes xfrm_lookup() to be
called as follows:
dst = xfrm_lookup(tunnel->net, skb_dst(skb), fl, NULL, 0);
Note that tunnel->net is the init namespace, while skb_dst(skb) references
the vti_test interface in the "secure" namespace. The returned dst
references an interface in the init namespace.
Also note that the first parameter to xfrm_lookup() determines which flow
cache is used to store the computed xfrm bundle, so after xfrm_lookup()
returns there will be a cached bundle in the init namespace flow cache
with a dst referencing a device in the "secure" namespace.
(4) ip netns del secure
Kernel begins to delete the "secure" namespace. At some point the
vti_test interface is deleted, at which point dst_ifdown() changes
the dst->dev in the cached xfrm bundle flow from vti_test to lo (still
in the "secure" namespace however).
Since nothing has happened to cause the init namespace's flow cache
to be garbage collected, this dst remains attached to the flow cache,
so the kernel loops waiting for the last reference to lo to go away.
<Begin script>
ip link add br1 type bridge
ip link set dev br1 up
ip addr add dev br1 1.1.1.1/8
ip netns add secure
ip link add vti_test type vti local 1.1.1.1 remote 1.1.1.2 key 1
ip link set vti_test netns secure
ip netns exec secure ip link set vti_test up
ip netns exec secure ip link s lo up
ip netns exec secure ip addr add dev lo 192.168.100.1/24
ip netns exec secure ip route add 192.168.200.0/24 dev vti_test
ip xfrm policy flush
ip xfrm state flush
ip xfrm policy add dir out tmpl src 1.1.1.1 dst 1.1.1.2 \
proto esp mode tunnel mark 1
ip xfrm policy add dir in tmpl src 1.1.1.2 dst 1.1.1.1 \
proto esp mode tunnel mark 1
ip xfrm state add src 1.1.1.1 dst 1.1.1.2 proto esp spi 1 \
mode tunnel enc des3_ede 0x112233445566778811223344556677881122334455667788
ip xfrm state add src 1.1.1.2 dst 1.1.1.1 proto esp spi 1 \
mode tunnel enc des3_ede 0x112233445566778811223344556677881122334455667788
ip netns exec secure ping -c 4 -i 0.02 -I 192.168.100.1 192.168.200.1
ip netns del secure
<End script>
Reported-by: Hangbin Liu <haliu@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Jan Tluka <jtluka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lance Richardson <lrichard@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Once a packet has been posted to a connection in the data_ready handler, we
mustn't try reposting if we then find that the connection is dying as the
refcount has been given over to the dying connection and the packet might
no longer exist.
Losing the packet isn't a problem as the peer will retransmit.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
The call state machine processor sets up the message parameters for a UDP
message that it might need to transmit in advance on the basis that there's
a very good chance it's going to have to transmit either an ACK or an
ABORT. This requires it to look in the connection struct to retrieve some
of the parameters.
However, if the call is complete, the call connection pointer may be NULL
to dissuade the processor from transmitting a message. However, there are
some situations where the processor is still going to be called - and it's
still going to set up message parameters whether it needs them or not.
This results in a NULL pointer dereference at:
net/rxrpc/call_event.c:837
To fix this, skip the message pre-initialisation if there's no connection
attached.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
If rxrpc_new_client_call() fails to make a connection, the call record that
it allocated needs to be marked as RXRPC_CALL_RELEASED before it is passed
to rxrpc_put_call() to indicate that it no longer has any attachment to the
AF_RXRPC socket.
Without this, an assertion failure may occur at:
net/rxrpc/call_object:635
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
A newly added bugfix caused an uninitialized variable to be
used for printing debug output. This is harmless as long
as the debug setting is disabled, but otherwise leads to an
immediate crash.
gcc warns about this when -Wmaybe-uninitialized is enabled:
net/rxrpc/call_object.c: In function 'rxrpc_release_call':
net/rxrpc/call_object.c:496:163: error: 'sp' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
The initialization was removed but one of the users remains.
This adds back the initialization.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Fixes: 372ee16386 ("rxrpc: Fix races between skb free, ACK generation and replying")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Currently, user can add a conntrack with different l4proto via nfnetlink.
For example, original tuple is TCP while reply tuple is SCTP. This is
invalid combination, we should report EINVAL to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@spreadtrum.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Like NFQNL_MSG_VERDICT_BATCH do, we should also reject the verdict
request when the portid is not same with the initial portid(maybe
from another process).
Fixes: 97d32cf944 ("netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: batch verdict support")
Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@spreadtrum.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
User can use NFQA_EXP to attach expectations to conntracks, but we
forget to put back nf_conntrack_expect when it is inserted successfully,
i.e. in this normal case, expect's use refcnt will be 3. So even we
unlink it and put it back later, the use refcnt is still 1, then the
memory will be leaked forever.
Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@spreadtrum.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
The 'name' filed in struct nf_conntrack_expect_policy{} is not a
pointer, so check it is NULL or not will always return true. Even if the
name is empty, slash will always be displayed like follows:
# cat /proc/net/nf_conntrack_expect
297 l3proto = 2 proto=6 src=1.1.1.1 dst=2.2.2.2 sport=1 dport=1025 ftp/
^
Fixes: 3a8fc53a45 ("netfilter: nf_ct_helper: allocate 16 bytes for the helper and policy names")
Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@spreadtrum.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
The files provided by batman-adv via debugfs are currently converted to
netlink. Tools which are not yet converted to use the netlink interface may
still rely on the old debugfs files. But systems which already upgraded
their tools can save some space by disabling this feature. The default
configuration of batman-adv on amd64 can reduce the size of the module by
around 11% when this feature is disabled.
$ size net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko*
text data bss dec hex filename
150507 10395 4160 165062 284c6 net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko.y
137106 7099 2112 146317 23b8d net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko.n
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Switch-like virtual interfaces like bridge or openvswitch don't destroy
itself when all their attached netdevices dissappear. Instead they only
remove the link to the unregistered device and keep working until they get
removed manually.
This has the benefit that all configurations for this interfaces are kept
and daemons reacting to rtnl events can just add new slave interfaces
without going through the complete configuration of the switch-like
netdevice.
Handling unregister events of client devices similar in batman-adv allows
users to drop their current workaround of dummy netdevices attached to
batman-adv soft-interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
It is hard to understand why the refcnt is increased when it isn't done
near the actual place the new reference is used. So using kref_get right
before the place which requires the reference and in the same function
helps to avoid accidental problems caused by incorrect reference counting.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
It is hard to understand why the refcnt is increased when it isn't done
near the actual place the new reference is used. So using kref_get right
before the place which requires the reference and in the same function
helps to avoid accidental problems caused by incorrect reference counting.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
It is hard to understand why the refcnt is increased when it isn't done
near the actual place the new reference is used. So using kref_get right
before the place which requires the reference and in the same function
helps to avoid accidental problems caused by incorrect reference counting.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
It is hard to understand why the refcnt is increased when it isn't done
near the actual place the new reference is used. So using kref_get right
before the place which requires the reference and in the same function
helps to avoid accidental problems caused by incorrect reference counting.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
It is hard to understand why the refcnt is increased when it isn't done
near the actual place the new reference is used. So using kref_get right
before the place which requires the reference and in the same function
helps to avoid accidental problems caused by incorrect reference counting.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
It is hard to understand why the refcnt is increased when it isn't done
near the actual place the new reference is used. So using kref_get right
before the place which requires the reference and in the same function
helps to avoid accidental problems caused by incorrect reference counting.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
It is hard to understand why the refcnt is increased when it isn't done
near the actual place the new reference is used. So using kref_get right
before the place which requires the reference and in the same function
helps to avoid accidental problems caused by incorrect reference counting.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
It is hard to understand why the refcnt is increased when it isn't done
near the actual place the new reference is used. So using kref_get right
before the place which requires the reference and in the same function
helps to avoid accidental problems caused by incorrect reference counting.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
It is hard to understand why the refcnt is increased when it isn't done
near the actual place the new reference is used. So using kref_get right
before the place which requires the reference and in the same function
helps to avoid accidental problems caused by incorrect reference counting.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
It is hard to understand why the refcnt is increased when it isn't done
near the actual place the new reference is used. So using kref_get right
before the place which requires the reference and in the same function
helps to avoid accidental problems caused by incorrect reference counting.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
It is hard to understand why the refcnt is increased when it isn't done
near the actual place the new reference is used. So using kref_get right
before the place which requires the reference and in the same function
helps to avoid accidental problems caused by incorrect reference counting.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
It is hard to understand why the refcnt is increased when it isn't done
near the actual place the new reference is used. So using kref_get right
before the place which requires the reference and in the same function
helps to avoid accidental problems caused by incorrect reference counting.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
