netdev - [PATCH RFC DRAFT 08/50] ns: add __ns_ref

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Message-Id: <20251021-work-namespace-nstree-listns-v1-8-ad44261a8a5b@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:43:14 +0200
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>, 
 Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Mike Yuan <me@...dnzj.com>, 
 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@...waw.pl>, 
 Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>, 
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 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
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 Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC DRAFT 08/50] ns: add __ns_ref_read()

Implement ns_ref_read() the same way as ns_ref_{get,put}().
No point in making that any more special or different from the other
helpers.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
---
 include/linux/ns_common.h | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ns_common.h b/include/linux/ns_common.h
index f5b68b8abb54..32114d5698dc 100644
--- a/include/linux/ns_common.h
+++ b/include/linux/ns_common.h
@@ -143,7 +143,12 @@ static __always_inline __must_check bool __ns_ref_get(struct ns_common *ns)
 	return refcount_inc_not_zero(&ns->__ns_ref);
 }
 
-#define ns_ref_read(__ns) refcount_read(&to_ns_common((__ns))->__ns_ref)
+static __always_inline __must_check int __ns_ref_read(const struct ns_common *ns)
+{
+	return refcount_read(&ns->__ns_ref);
+}
+
+#define ns_ref_read(__ns) __ns_ref_read(to_ns_common((__ns)))
 #define ns_ref_inc(__ns) refcount_inc(&to_ns_common((__ns))->__ns_ref)
 #define ns_ref_get(__ns) __ns_ref_get(to_ns_common((__ns)))
 #define ns_ref_put(__ns) __ns_ref_put(to_ns_common((__ns)))

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