kref: remove kref_set
Of the three uses of kref_set in the kernel:
One really should be kref_put as the code is letting go of a
reference,
Two really should be kref_init because the kref is being
initialised.
This suggests that making kref_set available encourages bad code.
So fix the three uses and remove kref_set completely.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/include/linux/kref.h b/include/linux/kref.h
index baf4b9e..6cc38fc 100644
--- a/include/linux/kref.h
+++ b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
atomic_t refcount;
};
-void kref_set(struct kref *kref, int num);
void kref_init(struct kref *kref);
void kref_get(struct kref *kref);
int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release) (struct kref *kref));
diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 076c7c8..b2d70d3 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@
#endif
/* tgcred will be cleared in our caller bc CLONE_THREAD won't be set */
- /* alloc_uid() incremented the userns refcount. Just set it to 1 */
- kref_set(&ns->kref, 1);
+ /* root_user holds a reference to ns, our reference can be dropped */
+ put_user_ns(ns);
return 0;
}
diff --git a/lib/kref.c b/lib/kref.c
index 6d19f69..d3d227a 100644
--- a/lib/kref.c
+++ b/lib/kref.c
@@ -16,23 +16,13 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
/**
- * kref_set - initialize object and set refcount to requested number.
- * @kref: object in question.
- * @num: initial reference counter
- */
-void kref_set(struct kref *kref, int num)
-{
- atomic_set(&kref->refcount, num);
- smp_mb();
-}
-
-/**
* kref_init - initialize object.
* @kref: object in question.
*/
void kref_init(struct kref *kref)
{
- kref_set(kref, 1);
+ atomic_set(&kref->refcount, 1);
+ smp_mb();
}
/**
@@ -72,7 +62,6 @@
return 0;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kref_set);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kref_init);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kref_get);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kref_put);
diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_iint.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_iint.c
index 2dc2d65..7625b85 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_iint.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_iint.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
iint->opencount);
iint->opencount = 0;
}
- kref_set(&iint->refcount, 1);
+ kref_init(&iint->refcount);
kmem_cache_free(iint_cache, iint);
}
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
iint->readcount = 0;
iint->writecount = 0;
iint->opencount = 0;
- kref_set(&iint->refcount, 1);
+ kref_init(&iint->refcount);
}
static int __init ima_iintcache_init(void)