Merge branch 'mips-next-3.10' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/john/linux-john into mips-for-linux-next

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index e07ee1fcd6f1..a65486613d79 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -529,6 +529,13 @@ struct kobject *kobject_get(struct kobject *kobj)
 	return kobj;
 }
 
+static struct kobject *kobject_get_unless_zero(struct kobject *kobj)
+{
+	if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&kobj->kref))
+		kobj = NULL;
+	return kobj;
+}
+
 /*
  * kobject_cleanup - free kobject resources.
  * @kobj: object to cleanup
@@ -751,7 +758,7 @@ struct kobject *kset_find_obj(struct kset *kset, const char *name)
 
 	list_for_each_entry(k, &kset->list, entry) {
 		if (kobject_name(k) && !strcmp(kobject_name(k), name)) {
-			ret = kobject_get(k);
+			ret = kobject_get_unless_zero(k);
 			break;
 		}
 	}