[PATCH v3 01/10] kobject: introduce kobject_del_and_put()

[Yangtao Li]

There are plenty of using kobject_del() and kobject_put() together
in the kernel tree. This patch wraps these two calls in a single helper.

Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li at vivo.com>
---
v3:
-convert to inline helper
v2:
-add kobject_del_and_put() users
 include/linux/kobject.h | 13 +++++++++++++
 lib/kobject.c           |  3 +--
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index bdab370a24f4..e21b7c22e355 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -112,6 +112,19 @@ extern struct kobject * __must_check kobject_get_unless_zero(
 						struct kobject *kobj);
 extern void kobject_put(struct kobject *kobj);
 
+/**
+ * kobject_del_and_put() - Delete kobject.
+ * @kobj: object.
+ *
+ * Unlink kobject from hierarchy and decrement the refcount.
+ * If refcount is 0, call kobject_cleanup().
+ */
+static inline void kobject_del_and_put(struct kobject *kobj)
+{
+	kobject_del(kobj);
+	kobject_put(kobj);
+}
+
 extern const void *kobject_namespace(const struct kobject *kobj);
 extern void kobject_get_ownership(const struct kobject *kobj,
 				  kuid_t *uid, kgid_t *gid);
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index f79a434e1231..e6c5a3ff1c53 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -876,8 +876,7 @@ void kset_unregister(struct kset *k)
 {
 	if (!k)
 		return;
-	kobject_del(&k->kobj);
-	kobject_put(&k->kobj);
+	kobject_del_and_put(&k->kobj);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kset_unregister);
 
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