netdev - [PATCH 15/17] pid: rely on common reference count behavior

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Message-Id: <20251110-work-namespace-nstree-fixes-v1-15-e8a9264e0fb9@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:08:27 +0100
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>, 
 Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@...il.com>, Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>, 
 Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, 
 Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, 
 Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org, 
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, 
 Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 15/17] pid: rely on common reference count behavior

Now that we changed the generic reference counting mechanism for all
namespaces to never manipulate reference counts of initial namespaces we
can drop the special handling for pid namespaces.

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

diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
index 445517a72ad0..0e7ae12c96d2 100644
--- a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
@@ -61,8 +61,7 @@ static inline struct pid_namespace *to_pid_ns(struct ns_common *ns)
 
 static inline struct pid_namespace *get_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
 {
-	if (ns != &init_pid_ns)
-		ns_ref_inc(ns);
+	ns_ref_inc(ns);
 	return ns;
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
index 650be58d8d18..e48f5de41361 100644
--- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(u64 flags,
 
 void put_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
 {
-	if (ns && ns != &init_pid_ns && ns_ref_put(ns))
+	if (ns && ns_ref_put(ns))
 		schedule_work(&ns->work);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(put_pid_ns);

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