netdev - [PATCH 08/14] net-sysfs: use check

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Message-Id: <20250918-work-namespace-ns_ref-v1-8-1b0a98ee041e@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:11:53 +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 08/14] net-sysfs: 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/core/net-sysfs.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index c28cd6665444..3c2dc4c5e683 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -1328,7 +1328,7 @@ net_rx_queue_update_kobjects(struct net_device *dev, int old_num, int new_num)
 		struct netdev_rx_queue *queue = &dev->_rx[i];
 		struct kobject *kobj = &queue->kobj;
 
-		if (!refcount_read(&dev_net(dev)->ns.count))
+		if (!check_net(dev_net(dev)))
 			kobj->uevent_suppress = 1;
 		if (dev->sysfs_rx_queue_group)
 			sysfs_remove_group(kobj, dev->sysfs_rx_queue_group);
@@ -2061,7 +2061,7 @@ netdev_queue_update_kobjects(struct net_device *dev, int old_num, int new_num)
 	while (--i >= new_num) {
 		struct netdev_queue *queue = dev->_tx + i;
 
-		if (!refcount_read(&dev_net(dev)->ns.count))
+		if (!check_net(dev_net(dev)))
 			queue->kobj.uevent_suppress = 1;
 
 		if (netdev_uses_bql(dev))
@@ -2315,7 +2315,7 @@ void netdev_unregister_kobject(struct net_device *ndev)
 {
 	struct device *dev = &ndev->dev;
 
-	if (!refcount_read(&dev_net(ndev)->ns.count))
+	if (!check_net(dev_net(ndev)))
 		dev_set_uevent_suppress(dev, 1);
 
 	kobject_get(&dev->kobj);

-- 
2.47.3