On Saturday, January 16, 2016 10:29:55 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> batman-adv uses a self-written reference implementation which is just based
> on atomic_t. This is less obvious when reading the code than kref and
> therefore increases the change that the reference counting will be missed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
> ---
> v6:
>  - removed patches which are now applied in the branch next
>  - rebased remaining patches on the patch
>    "batman-adv: Avoid recursive call_rcu for batadv_nc_node" which was
>    modified by Marek while he applied the patches (this unfortunately made
>    some of the remaining patches "hard" to apply)
> v5:
>  - add hack which allows to compile against stable kernel like 3.2.44 which
>    also added the kref_get_unless_zero function
> v4:
>  - fix function names in commit messages
>  - fix double whitespace in batadv_tt_orig_list_entry_release kerneldoc
>  - add extra patch for batadv_claim_free_ref kerneldoc fix
>  - change the phrase "free it" in all *_free_ref/*_put functions to "release
> it" v3:
>  - update copyright year
> v2:
>  - split patchset into fixes and kref migration to make it easier when the
>    decision is made where each patch will be applied
> 
>  net/batman-adv/originator.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
>  net/batman-adv/types.h      |  2 +-
>  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Applied in revision 33b1d7c.

Thanks,
Marek