netdev - [PATCH 07/14] user: port to ns_ref

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Message-Id: <20250918-work-namespace-ns_ref-v1-7-1b0a98ee041e@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:11:52 +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 07/14] user: port to ns_ref_*() helpers

Stop accessing ns.count directly.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
---
 include/linux/user_namespace.h | 4 ++--
 kernel/user_namespace.c        | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/user_namespace.h b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
index a09056ad090e..9a9aebbf96b9 100644
--- a/include/linux/user_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static inline struct user_namespace *to_user_ns(struct ns_common *ns)
 static inline struct user_namespace *get_user_ns(struct user_namespace *ns)
 {
 	if (ns)
-		refcount_inc(&ns->ns.count);
+		ns_ref_inc(ns);
 	return ns;
 }
 
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ extern void __put_user_ns(struct user_namespace *ns);
 
 static inline void put_user_ns(struct user_namespace *ns)
 {
-	if (ns && refcount_dec_and_test(&ns->ns.count))
+	if (ns && ns_ref_put(ns))
 		__put_user_ns(ns);
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 32406bcab526..f9df45c46235 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ static void free_user_ns(struct work_struct *work)
 		kfree_rcu(ns, ns.ns_rcu);
 		dec_user_namespaces(ucounts);
 		ns = parent;
-	} while (refcount_dec_and_test(&parent->ns.count));
+	} while (ns_ref_put(parent));
 }
 
 void __put_user_ns(struct user_namespace *ns)

-- 
2.47.3