linux-kernel - [PATCH 10/14] ipv4: use check

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Message-Id: <20250918-work-namespace-ns_ref-v1-10-1b0a98ee041e@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:11:55 +0200
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>, Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>, 
 Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, Mike Yuan <me@...dnzj.com>, 
 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@...waw.pl>, 
 Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>, 
 Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@...il.com>, Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>, 
 Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, 
 Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, 
 Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>, 
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
 Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>, 
 Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>, 
 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
 Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 10/14] ipv4: use check_net()

Don't directly acess the namespace count. There's even a dedicated
helper for this.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
---
 net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c | 4 ++--
 net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c        | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c
index 875ff923a8ed..56a117560c0c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c
@@ -329,13 +329,13 @@ void inet_twsk_purge(struct inet_hashinfo *hashinfo)
 					     TCPF_NEW_SYN_RECV))
 				continue;
 
-			if (refcount_read(&sock_net(sk)->ns.count))
+			if (check_net(sock_net(sk)))
 				continue;
 
 			if (unlikely(!refcount_inc_not_zero(&sk->sk_refcnt)))
 				continue;
 
-			if (refcount_read(&sock_net(sk)->ns.count)) {
+			if (check_net(sock_net(sk))) {
 				sock_gen_put(sk);
 				goto restart;
 			}
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
index 03c068ea27b6..b67f94c60f9f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
@@ -912,7 +912,7 @@ static void tcp_metrics_flush_all(struct net *net)
 		spin_lock_bh(&tcp_metrics_lock);
 		for (tm = deref_locked(*pp); tm; tm = deref_locked(*pp)) {
 			match = net ? net_eq(tm_net(tm), net) :
-				!refcount_read(&tm_net(tm)->ns.count);
+				!check_net(tm_net(tm));
 			if (match) {
 				rcu_assign_pointer(*pp, tm->tcpm_next);
 				kfree_rcu(tm, rcu_head);

-- 
2.47.3