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    SubjectRe: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/13] wireless: Apply rcu_access_pointer() to avoid sparse false positive
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    On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 18:35 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
    > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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    > 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 uses in
    > cfg80211_combine_bsses() and cfg80211_bss_update() are legitimate:
    > They is assigning a pointer to an element from an RCU-protected list,
    [...]

    'They is'? This error is also in the commit messsages for the bridge
    and mac80211 patches, and maybe others that weren't sent to netdev.

    Ben.

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