net: core: netlink: add helper refcount dec and lock function
authorVlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com>
Mon, 24 Sep 2018 16:22:49 +0000 (19:22 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 03:17:35 +0000 (20:17 -0700)
commit6f99528e9797794b91b43321fbbc93fe772b0803
tree67accb6fd62e34b0720d0824d2cdc1076568890c
parentc774973e91e1f08c58bb25c950a30252cfde650c
net: core: netlink: add helper refcount dec and lock function

Rtnl lock is encapsulated in netlink and cannot be accessed by other
modules directly. This means that reference counted objects that rely on
rtnl lock cannot use it with refcounter helper function that atomically
releases decrements reference and obtains mutex.

This patch implements simple wrapper function around refcount_dec_and_lock
that obtains rtnl lock if reference counter value reached 0.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/linux/rtnetlink.h
net/core/rtnetlink.c