From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com>
As explained in the previous commit, modules are going to need to take a
reference on fib info and then drop it using fib_info_put().
Add the fib_info_hold() helper to make the code more readable and also
symmetric with fib_info_put().
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com>
Suggested-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>
---
include/net/ip_fib.h | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/ip_fib.h b/include/net/ip_fib.h
index f390c3b..6c67b93 100644
--- a/include/net/ip_fib.h
+++ b/include/net/ip_fib.h
@@ -397,6 +397,11 @@ static inline void fib_combine_itag(u32 *itag, const
struct fib_result *res)
void free_fib_info(struct fib_info *fi);
+static inline void fib_info_hold(struct fib_info *fi)
+{
+ atomic_inc(&fi->fib_clntref);
+}
+
static inline void fib_info_put(struct fib_info *fi)
{
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&fi->fib_clntref))
--
2.7.4
