From 4a00bcf5a6a8ad37d5bebd13dc640992cc104c18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 15:38:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] shared: add nm_g_object_ref() and nm_g_object_unref()
 function

---
 shared/nm-macros-internal.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/shared/nm-macros-internal.h b/shared/nm-macros-internal.h
index dafce87795..1f638bab18 100644
--- a/shared/nm-macros-internal.h
+++ b/shared/nm-macros-internal.h
@@ -313,6 +313,26 @@ _notify (obj_type *obj, _PropertyEnums prop) \
 
 /*****************************************************************************/
 
+static inline gpointer
+nm_g_object_ref (gpointer obj)
+{
+	/* g_object_ref() doesn't accept NULL. */
+	if (obj)
+		g_object_ref (obj);
+	return obj;
+}
+
+static inline void
+nm_g_object_unref (gpointer obj)
+{
+	/* g_object_unref() doesn't accept NULL. Usully, we workaround that
+	 * by using g_clear_object(), but sometimes that is not convinient
+	 * (for example as as destroy function for a hash table that can contain
+	 * NULL values). */
+	if (obj)
+		g_object_unref (obj);
+}
+
 static inline gboolean
 nm_clear_g_source (guint *id)
 {