[RFC][PATCH 4/7] kref: Use kref_get_unless_zero() more

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Nov 14 2016 - 12:47:41 EST


For some obscure reason apparmor thinks its needs to locally implement
kref primitives that already exist. Stop doing this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/apparmor/include/apparmor.h | 6 ------
security/apparmor/include/policy.h | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/security/apparmor/include/apparmor.h
+++ b/security/apparmor/include/apparmor.h
@@ -78,12 +78,6 @@ static inline void *kvzalloc(size_t size
return __aa_kvmalloc(size, __GFP_ZERO);
}

-/* returns 0 if kref not incremented */
-static inline int kref_get_not0(struct kref *kref)
-{
- return atomic_inc_not_zero(&kref->refcount);
-}
-
/**
* aa_strneq - compare null terminated @str to a non null terminated substring
* @str: a null terminated string
--- a/security/apparmor/include/policy.h
+++ b/security/apparmor/include/policy.h
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ static inline struct aa_profile *aa_get_
*/
static inline struct aa_profile *aa_get_profile_not0(struct aa_profile *p)
{
- if (p && kref_get_not0(&p->count))
+ if (p && kref_get_unless_zero(&p->count))
return p;

return NULL;
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ static inline struct aa_profile *aa_get_
rcu_read_lock();
do {
c = rcu_dereference(*p);
- } while (c && !kref_get_not0(&c->count));
+ } while (c && !kref_get_unless_zero(&c->count));
rcu_read_unlock();

return c;