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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 05/13] decnet: Apply rcu_access_pointer() to avoid sparse false positive
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On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> The sparse checking for rcu_assign_pointer() was recently upgraded
> to reject non-__kernel address spaces. This also rejects __rcu,
> which is almost always the right thing to do. However, the use in
> dn_insert_route() is legitimate: It is assigning a pointer to an element
> from an RCU-protected list, and all elements of this list are already
> visible to caller.
>
> This commit therefore silences this false positive by laundering the
> pointer using rcu_access_pointer() as suggested by Josh Triplett.
>
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>


I did not realize that we were allowed to rename people :-)

Thanks!
Dhaval


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