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-rw-r--r--include/linux/kref.h1
-rw-r--r--lib/kref.c12
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kref.h b/include/linux/kref.h
index 6cc38fc07ab7..90b9e44abf54 100644
--- a/include/linux/kref.h
+++ b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ struct kref {
void kref_init(struct kref *kref);
void kref_get(struct kref *kref);
+int kref_test_and_get(struct kref *kref);
int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release) (struct kref *kref));
#endif /* _KREF_H_ */
diff --git a/lib/kref.c b/lib/kref.c
index d3d227a08a4b..e7a6e1067122 100644
--- a/lib/kref.c
+++ b/lib/kref.c
@@ -37,6 +37,18 @@ void kref_get(struct kref *kref)
}
/**
+ * kref_test_and_get - increment refcount for object only if refcount is not
+ * zero.
+ * @kref: object.
+ *
+ * Return non-zero if the refcount was incremented, 0 otherwise
+ */
+int kref_test_and_get(struct kref *kref)
+{
+ return atomic_inc_not_zero(&kref->refcount);
+}
+
+/**
* kref_put - decrement refcount for object.
* @kref: object.
* @release: pointer to the function that will clean up the object when the