From: Pavel Emelianov Make get_pid_ns() return the namespace itself to look like the other getters and make the code using it look nicer. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater Cc: Kirill Korotaev Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Herbert Poetzl Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/pid_namespace.h | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/pid_namespace.h~pid-namespaces-make-get_pid_ns-return-the-namespace-itself include/linux/pid_namespace.h --- a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h~pid-namespaces-make-get_pid_ns-return-the-namespace-itself +++ a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h @@ -24,9 +24,10 @@ struct pid_namespace { extern struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns; -static inline void get_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns) +static inline struct pid_namespace *get_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns) { kref_get(&ns->kref); + return ns; } extern struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(unsigned long flags, struct pid_namespace *ns); _