Merge tag 'configfs-for-4.12' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/configfs

Pull configfs updates from Christoph Hellwig:
 "A fix from Nic for a race seen in production (including a stable tag).

  And while I'm sending you this I'm also sneaking in a trivial new
  helper from Bart so that we don't need inter-tree dependencies for the
  next merge window"

* tag 'configfs-for-4.12' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/configfs:
  configfs: Introduce config_item_get_unless_zero()
  configfs: Fix race between create_link and configfs_rmdir

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/configfs/item.c b/fs/configfs/item.c
index 8b2a994042dd..a66f6624d899 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/item.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/item.c
@@ -138,6 +138,14 @@ struct config_item *config_item_get(struct config_item *item)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(config_item_get);
 
+struct config_item *config_item_get_unless_zero(struct config_item *item)
+{
+	if (item && kref_get_unless_zero(&item->ci_kref))
+		return item;
+	return NULL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(config_item_get_unless_zero);
+
 static void config_item_cleanup(struct config_item *item)
 {
 	struct config_item_type *t = item->ci_type;